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Immerse

//ɪˈmɜːs// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Immersed; buried; sunk. obsolete

    "After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds."

Verb
  1. 1
    To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas). transitive

    "Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water."

  2. 2
    devote (oneself) fully to wordnet
  3. 3
    To involve or engage deeply. transitive

    "The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies."

  4. 4
    cause to be immersed wordnet
  5. 5
    To map into an immersion. transitive

    "Thus, in mathematical terms a Klein bottle cannot be "embedded" but only "immersed" in three dimensions as an embedding has no self-intersections but an immersion may have them."

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  1. 6
    thrust or throw into wordnet
  2. 7
    enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin immersus, from immergō, from in + mergō.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin immersus, from immergō, from in + mergō.

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