noun ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion countable, uncountable
2. 2
   the act of wetting something by submerging it wordnet
3. 3
   A differentiable map whose differential is everywhere surjective. countable, uncountable
4. 4
   sinking until covered completely with water wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

submergenceabsorbed attentionabsorptionaffusionalluvionalluvium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin summersio, summersionem.

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