immersion
English
Etymology
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersio, immersionem.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈmɝʒən/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)ʒən
Noun
immersion (countable and uncountable, plural immersions)
- The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
- The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
- Deep engagement in something.
- 2016, David Waugh, Sally Neaum, Rosemary Waugh, Children's Literature in Primary Schools (page 80)
- Recognising and knowing how to understand visual imagery in relation to a narrative in picture books is primarily a matter of immersion in books within a specific culture.
- 2016, David Waugh, Sally Neaum, Rosemary Waugh, Children's Literature in Primary Schools (page 80)
- (Britain, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
- (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
- (astronomy) 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; opposed to emersion.
- (linguistics) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
Translations
the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism
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Further reading
Immersion in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) immersion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem.
Related terms
Further reading
- “immersion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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