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...
- 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...
- Immersion baptism (also known as baptism by immersion or baptism by submersion) is a method of baptism that is distinguished from baptism by affusion...
- Baptism (from Koinē Gr****: βάπτισμα, romanized: váptisma, lit. 'immersion, dipping in water') is a Christian sacrament of initiation almost invariably...
- Immersion cooling is an IT cooling practice by which servers are completely or partially immersed in a dielectric fluid that has significantly higher...
- In light microscopy, oil immersion is a technique used to increase the resolving power of a microscope. This is achieved by immersing both the objective...
- Language immersion, or simply immersion, is a technique used in bilingual language education in which two languages are used for instruction in a variety...
- In differential topology, the Whitney immersion theorem (named after H****ler Whitney) states that for m > 1 {\displaystyle m>1} , any smooth m {\displaystyle...
- 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...
- In algebraic geometry, a closed immersion of schemes is a morphism of schemes f : Z → X {\displaystyle f:Z\to X} that identifies Z as a closed subset...