immersion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
astronomy
education
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).
Inflected forms:
form: immersions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: An immersion heater.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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).
gloss: A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: immerse
immerser
immersive
Derived words: full immersion
immersional
immersion blender
immersion foot
immersion foot syndrome
immersionism
immersionist
immersion journalism
immersion lens
immersion oil
immersion suit
nonimmersion
parallel immersion
postimmersion
reimmersion
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: потапяне
roman: potapjane
lang: Catalan
word: immersió
lang: Czech
word: ponoření
lang: Czech
word: potopení
lang: Czech
word: ponor
lang: Dutch
word: onderdompeling
lang: Finnish
word: upotus
lang: Finnish
word: upottaminen
lang: French
word: immersion
lang: German
word: Eintauchen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍀𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃
roman: daupeins
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βαφή
roman: baphḗ
lang: Hungarian
word: belemerítés
lang: Hungarian
word: belemártás
lang: Hungarian
word: alámerítés
lang: Hungarian
word: belemerülés
lang: Hungarian
word: megmerítkezés
lang: Irish
word: bá
lang: Irish
word: deochadh
lang: Irish
word: folcadh
lang: Irish
word: fothragadh
lang: Irish
word: tumadh
lang: Māori
word: rumakanga
lang: Portuguese
word: imersão
lang: Russian
word: погруже́ние
roman: pogružénije
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tumadh
lang: Spanish
word: inmersión
lang: Telugu
word: మునక
roman: munaka