Immersion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or an instance of immersing.
  • n. The condition of being immersed.
  • n. Baptism performed by totally submerging a person in water.
  • n. Astronomy The obscuring of a celestial body by another or by the shadow of another.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
  • n. the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism
  • n. an immersion heater
  • n. a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping.
  • n. Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, .
  • n. The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking or dipping into a fluid.
  • n. Specifically A mode of administering baptism by dipping or plunging the whole person into water.
  • n. Figuratively, the act of overwhelming, or the state of being deeply engaged; absorption: as, immersion in scientific studies.
  • n. In astronomy, the disappearance of a celestial body by passing either behind another or into its shadow: opposed to emersion.
  • n. In microscopy, the placing of a drop of liquid, such as water, between the object-glass and the object.
  • n. In ceramics, the application of the glaze to a piece of pottery by plunging it into a vessel filled with the glaze in a liquid state.
  • n. An antiquated term for the introduction of a solid substance into a liquid reagent in order to produce chemical change, as the calcination of tin by immersion in nitric acid.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. sinking until covered completely with water
  • n. (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
  • n. complete attention; intense mental effort
  • n. a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
  • n. the act of wetting something by submerging it
    • Antonym
    emersion   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disappearance    wetting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dipping    mersion    dip    swim    baptism   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Persian    aspersion    aversion    conversion    dispersion   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    submersion    regeneration   
     
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