What does "immersion" mean?
The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.; The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
Immersion
/ɪˈmɜːʃən/ noun, slang
noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.; The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
- Grammar: immersion is listed as noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: absorption, submergence, submersion, absorbed attention.
- Useful contrasts: apathy, aspersion, dabbling.
- Usage evidence: The language students participated in an immersion program.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.; The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism. countable, uncountable
"Jesus did not become known as a baptizer (cf. however John 3:26 and 4:1), but we can recognize the same ritual structure in his healing practice as in John's immersion."
- 2 the act of wetting something by submerging it wordnet
- 3 The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.; Deep engagement in something. countable, uncountable
"In examining Capote, Clarke follows the course of the precocious writer's life with painstaking attention to gossipy detail. It's an exhaustive roller coaster of a read, a high-tilt immersion into the social swirl and scandal that accompanied most of Capote's adult life."
- 4 a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged wordnet
- 5 An immersion heater. British, Ireland, countable, informal, uncountable
"She left the immersion on all the time, while I had been reared under pain of death to turn it off as soon as the bathwater was heated."
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- 6 complete attention; intense mental effort wordnet
- 7 A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding. countable, uncountable
"Note that every embedding is an immersion, but the converse is not true. For an immersion to be an embedding, it must be one-to-one and the inverse must be continuous."
- 8 (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse wordnet
- 9 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. countable, uncountable
"An occultation of a star by the moon provides two sharply defined observable phenomena: the disappearance of a star behind the disc of the moon (called its immersion), and its subsequent reappearance (or emersion)."
- 10 sinking until covered completely with water wordnet
- 11 A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student. countable, uncountable
"Although numerous studies have reported the effectiveness of immersion programmes in developing relatively high levels of second language proficiency without any tradeoff of first language development or subject matter mastery, little is known of immersion education in Japan."
- 12 One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world. countable, uncountable
- 13 A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists. countable, uncountable
Synonyms
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Example
"The language students participated in an immersion program."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "immersion"?
Common synonyms include: absorption, submergence, submersion, absorbed attention, absorption, affusion.
How do you use "immersion" in a sentence?
The language students participated in an immersion program.
How do you pronounce "immersion"?
Pronounced /ɪˈmɜːʃən/.
Etymology
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).