Meaning

8 senses
  1. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.

    (countable, uncountable)The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.

    Untertauchen, Eintauchen, Immersion

    погруже́ниеpogružénije

    the act of wetting something by submerging it

  2. (countable, uncountable)Deep engagement in something.

  3. (Ireland, UK, countable, informal, uncountable)An immersion heater.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.

    Immersion

  5. (countable, uncountable)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.

    (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse

  6. (countable, uncountable)A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.

  7. (countable, uncountable)One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.

  8. (countable, uncountable)A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.

Examples

14 sentences
  1. Tom was baptized by triple immersion.

    ruТома крестили троекратным погружением в воду.

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  2. Have you ever heard of linguistic immersion?

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  3. The language students participated in an immersion program.

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  4. Does full-on immersion really help people learn languages?

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  5. The constant stuttering broke my immersion while playing that game.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism:
the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed:

Origin

From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).

From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).

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Forms

plural: immersions
Singularimmersion
Pluralimmersions

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

17 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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