immersion en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɪˈmɜːʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ɪˈmɝʒən/ (General-American)
Etymology
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed. ▸ The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
Jesus did not become known as a baptizer (cf. however John 3:26 and 4:1), but we can recognize the same ritual structure in his healing practice as in John's immersion.
2016, Risto Uro, Ritual and Christian Beginnings, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 98:
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(countable, uncountable) The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed. ▸ Deep engagement in something.
In examining Capote, Clarke follows the course of the precocious writer's life with painstaking attention to gossipy detail. It's an exhaustive roller coaster of a read, a high-tilt immersion into the social swirl and scandal that accompanied most of Capote's adult life.
1988 December 11, Elizabeth Pincus, “Truman Capote: The Gossip, The Dirt”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 7:Recognising and knowing how to understand visual imagery in relation to a narrative in picture books is primarily a matter of immersion in books within a specific culture.
2016, David Waugh, Sally Neaum, Rosemary Waugh, Children's Literature in Primary Schools, page 80:
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(Ireland, UK, countable, informal, uncountable) An immersion heater.
She left the immersion on all the time, while I had been reared under pain of death to turn it off as soon as the bathwater was heated.
2020, Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing But Blue Sky, Penguin, →ISBN:
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(countable, uncountable) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
Note that every embedding is an immersion, but the converse is not true. For an immersion to be an embedding, it must be one-to-one and the inverse must be continuous.
2006, William F. Basener, Topology and Its Applications, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 82:
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(countable, uncountable) 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.
An occultation of a star by the moon provides two sharply defined observable phenomena: the disappearance of a star behind the disc of the moon (called its immersion), and its subsequent reappearance (or emersion).
2009, Steven Wepster, Between Theory and Observations, Springer Science, →ISBN, page 178:
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(countable, uncountable) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
Although numerous studies have reported the effectiveness of immersion programmes in developing relatively high levels of second language proficiency without any tradeoff of first language development or subject matter mastery, little is known of immersion education in Japan.
2001, Mary Goebel Noguchi, Sandra Fotos, Studies in Japanese Bilingualism, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 272:
- (countable, uncountable) One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
- (countable, uncountable) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| immersions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
reimmersion · immersional · immersion oil · full immersion · immersion suit · immersionist · immersion foot · nonimmersion · immersion blender · parallel immersion · immersionism · immersion journalism · immersion foot syndrome · immersion lens · postimmersion
Relateds
immerse · immersive · immerser
Translations (48)
mi rumakanga (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · hu elmélyedés (deep engagement in something) · ca immersió (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · cs ponoření (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · de Immersion (in mathematics) · cs potopení (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · cmn 浸入 (in mathematics) · hu vízkeresztség (the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism) · es inmersión (the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism) · ga tumadh (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · fi immersio (in mathematics) · hu alámerülés (the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism) · hu megmerítkezés (the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism) · hu alámerítés (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · ro imersiune (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · gd tumadh (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · de Untertauchen (the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism) · de Eintauchen (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · it immersione (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · ru погруже́ние (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · te మునక (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · ga deochadh (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · fr immersion (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · hu elmerülés (deep engagement in something) · pt imersão (in mathematics) · ga bá (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · de Immersion (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · hu belemártás (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · grc βαφή (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · nl immersie (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · es inmersión (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · fr immersion (in mathematics) · ga fothragadh (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · ro imersie (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · hu belemerülés (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · pt imersão (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · hu keresztség (the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism) · hu megmerítkezés (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · got 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍀𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · cs ponor (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · hu keresztelés (the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism) · bg потапяне (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · hu belemerítés (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · nl onderdompeling (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · fi upottaminen (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · fi upotus (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · ga folcadh (the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed) · fi upotuskaste (the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism)