immersion meaning

Noun: immersion  i'murzhun

1. Sinking until covered completely with water
   - submergence, submerging, submersion 
2. (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
   - ingress 
3. Complete attention; intense mental effort
   - concentration, engrossment, absorption 
4. A form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged 
5. The act of wetting something by submerging it
   - submersion, ducking, dousing

Sounds like: emersion

Derived forms: immersions

See also: immerse

Type of: attention, baptism, disappearance, sinking, wetting

Antonym: emersion

Part of: eclipse, occultation

Encyclopedia: Immersion

[Medicine]
The placing of a body or a part thereof into a liquid.

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1. debonding was detected for hot water immersions.
2. diffusion treatment, relies upon an immersion or spray treatment.
3. such immersion or displacement deposits are usually spongy and black.
4. this can be eliminated by placing the model in an immersion cell.
5. since 1960, many horizontal immersion extractors have been introduced.