Definition of Immersion. Meaning of Immersion. Synonyms of Immersion

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Definition of Immersion

Immersion
Immersion Im*mer"sion, n. [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.) 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.

Meaning of Immersion from wikipedia

- Look up immersion or immersive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Immersion may refer to: "Immersion", a 2012 story by Aliette de Bodard Immersion, a French...
- Baptism (from Koinē Gr****: βάπτισμα, romanized: váptisma, lit. 'immersion, dipping in water') is a Christian sacrament of initiation almost invariably...
- Immersion baptism (also known as baptism by immersion or baptism by submersion) is a method of baptism that is distinguished from baptism by affusion...
- Immersion cooling technology encomp****es systems in which electronic components are directly exposed to and interact with dielectric fluids for cooling...
- An immersion suit, also known as a survival suit, is a type of waterproof dry suit intended to protect the wearer from hypothermia if immersed in cold...
- In mathematics, an immersion is a differentiable function between differentiable manifolds whose differential pushforward is everywhere injective. Explicitly...
- response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the basic homeostatic reflexes, and is found in all air-breathing...
- Video Immersion is a set of computer graphics processing technologies, used by ATI Technologies in their Radeon video cards. It is the brand name ATI...
- Immersion zinc plating is an electroless (non-electrolytic) coating process that deposits a thin layer of zinc on a less electronegative metal, by immersion...
- Language immersion, or simply immersion, is a technique used in bilingual language education in which two languages are used for instruction in a variety...