About The Word Immersion
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Immersion
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What's The Definition Of Immersion?
[n] the act of wetting something by submerging it
[n] a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged [n] complete attention; intense mental effort [n] (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse [n] sinking until covered completely with water Synonyms | Synonyms for Immersion: absorption | concentration | dousing | ducking | engrossment | ingress | submergence | submerging | submersion | submersion Related Terms | Find terms related to Immersion: absorbed attention | absorption | affusion | application | aspergation | aspersion | baptism | baptismal gown | baptismal regeneration | baptistery | baptizement | bath | bathing | bedewing | burial | chrismal | christening | concentration | contemplation | dampening | damping | deep study | deep thought | deluge | dewing | dip | dipping | dousing | drowning | duck | ducking | dunking | engagement | engrossment | engulfment | flooding | font | hosing | hosing down | humidification | immergence | infusion | intentness | inundation | involvement | irrigation | laving | meditation | moistening | monomania | obsession | preoccupation | profound thought | rapt attention | rinsing | single-mindedness | sinking | souse | sousing | sparging | spattering | splashing | splattering | spraying | sprinkling | studiousness | study | submergence | submersion | swashing | total immersion | watering | wetting See Also | attention | baptism | centering | dip | direction | disappearance | eclipse | focus | focusing | focussing | occultation | sinking | specialism | study | wetting Immersion In Webster's Dictionary \Im*mer"sion\, n. [L. immersio; cf. F. immersion.]
1. The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a
sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of
Achilles in the Styx.
2. Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism,
as, practiced by the Baptists.
3. The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep
engagedness.
Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life.
--Atterbury.
4. (Astron.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by
passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a
star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a
satellite; -- opposed to {emersion}.
{Immersion lens}, a microscopic objective of short focal
distance designed to work with a drop of liquid, as oil,
between the front lens and the slide, so that this lens is
practically immersed.
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