immersion

From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersio, immersionem.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɝʒən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)ʒən

immersion (countable and uncountable, plural immersions)

1. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
   1. The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
   2. Deep engagement in something.
      • 2016, David Waugh, ‎Sally Neaum, ‎Rosemary Waugh, Children's Literature in Primary Schools (page 80)

        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.

2. (Britain, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
3. (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
4. (astronomy) 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; opposed to emersion.
5. (linguistics) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.

• immerse
• immersive

• Immersion in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• immersion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• semiminor

immersion

1. Genitive singular form of immersio.

• seminormi

Borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem.

immersion f (plural immersions)

1. immersion
2. language immersion

• immerger

• “immersion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).