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immersion.

The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɪˈmɜːʃən/Received-Pronunciation/ɪˈmɝʒən/General-American
  1. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed. The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.

    countable · uncountable
  2. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed. Deep engagement in something.

    countable · uncountable
  3. An immersion heater.

    Ireland · UK · countable · informal · uncountable
  4. A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.

    countable · uncountable
  5. The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite.

    countable · uncountable
  6. A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.

    countable · uncountable
  7. One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.

    countable · uncountable
  8. A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).

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