Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of immersing.
- noun The condition of being immersed.
- noun Baptism performed by totally submerging a person in water.
- noun Astronomy The obscuring of a celestial body by another or by the shadow of another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An antiquated term for the introduction of a solid substance into a liquid reagent in order to produce chemical change, as the calcination of tin by immersion in nitric acid.
- noun The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking or dipping into a fluid.
- noun Specifically A mode of administering baptism by dipping or plunging the whole person into water.
- noun Figuratively, the act of overwhelming, or the state of being deeply engaged; absorption: as, immersion in scientific studies.
- noun In astronomy, the disappearance of a celestial body by passing either behind another or into its shadow: opposed to emersion.
- noun In microscopy, the placing of a drop of liquid, such as water, between the object-glass and the object.
- noun In ceramics, the application of the glaze to a piece of pottery by plunging it into a vessel filled with the glaze in a liquid state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping.
- noun Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, .
- noun The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
- noun (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 . - noun 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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
immersing or the condition of beingimmersed - noun the
total submerging of a person inwater as an act ofbaptism - noun UK, Ireland, informal an
immersion heater - noun mathematics a
smooth map whosedifferential is everywhereinjective , related to the mathematical concept of anembedding
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sinking until covered completely with water
- noun (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
- noun complete attention; intense mental effort
- noun a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
- noun the act of wetting something by submerging it
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So, but, you know, the flip side of that -- and a lot of psychologists were talking about this -- is, one of the treatments to try and avoid PTSD is what they called immersion therapy.
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"He is known for teaching through what he calls immersion experiences: bringing cultural awareness as well as language instruction to the classroom and leading students on 'home stays' in Mexico and Spain," Gist continued.
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Yes, complete immersion is absolutely the best method.
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Often, the problem with immersion is feeling lost in a sea of sounds that you have no idea how to make sense out of.
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Often, the problem with immersion is feeling lost in a sea of sounds that you have no idea how to make sense out of.
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Often, the problem with immersion is feeling lost in a sea of sounds that you have no idea how to make sense out of.
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Often, the problem with immersion is feeling lost in a sea of sounds that you have no idea how to make sense out of.
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Yes, complete immersion is absolutely the best method.
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Yes, complete immersion is absolutely the best method.
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Often, the problem with immersion is feeling lost in a sea of sounds that you have no idea how to make sense out of.
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Louises commented on the word immersion
tedious self-knowledge had become blissful self-ignorance. All former certainties were up for renegotiation. The circuitry of detached self-analysis was fried. Here again was immersion in the good blind flow. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 19, 2012