'Immersion' definitions:
Definition of 'immersion'
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Definition of 'Immersion'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness. [1913 Webster]
- Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'immersion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absorbed attention,
- absorption,
- affusion,
- application,
- aspergation,
- aspersion,
- baptism,
- baptismal gown,
- baptismal regeneration,
- baptistery,
- baptizement,
- bath,
- bathing,
- bedewing,
- burial,
- chrismal,
- christening,
- concentration,
- contemplation,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deep study,
- deep thought,
- deluge,
- dewing,
- dip,
- dipping,
- dousing,
- drowning,
- duck,
- ducking,
- dunking,
- engagement,
- engrossment,
- engulfment,
- flooding,
- font,
- hosing,
- hosing down,
- humidification,
- immergence,
- infusion,
- intentness,
- inundation,
- involvement,
- irrigation,
- laving,
- meditation,
- moistening,
- monomania,
- obsession,
- preoccupation,
- profound thought,
- rapt attention,
- rinsing,
- single-mindedness,
- sinking,
- souse,
- sousing,
- sparging,
- spattering,
- splashing,
- splattering,
- spraying,
- sprinkling,
- studiousness,
- study,
- submergence,
- submersion,
- swashing,
- total immersion,
- watering,
- wetting