submersion, immersion, ducking, dousing
(noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it
immersion
(noun) a form of baptism in which part or all of a person’s body is submerged
concentration, engrossment, absorption, immersion
(noun) complete attention; intense mental effort
ingress, immersion
(noun) (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
submergence, submerging, submersion, immersion
(noun) sinking until covered completely with water
Source: WordNet® 3.1
immersion (countable and uncountable, plural immersions)
The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
Deep engagement in something.
(British, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
(mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
(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.
Antonym: emersion
(education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
• semiminor
Source: Wiktionary
Im*mer"sion, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
