Hypertext Webster Gateway: "immersion"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

immersion
n 1: covering completely with water [syn: {submergence}, {submerging},
{submersion}]
2: a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is
submerged
3: the act of submerging something [syn: {ducking}, {dousing}]


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