Meaning

The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
2. (British, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
3. (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
4. (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.
5. (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
6. One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
7. (art) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.

Example Sentences

She left the immersion on all the time, while I had been reared under pain of death to turn it off as soon as the bathwater was heated.

Note that every embedding is an immersion, but the converse is not true. For an immersion to be an embedding, it must be one-to-one and the inverse must be continuous.

An occultation of a star by the moon provides two sharply defined observable phenomena: the disappearance of a star behind the disc of the moon (called its immersion), and its subsequent reappearance (or emersion).

Although numerous studies have reported the effectiveness of immersion programmes in developing relatively high levels of second language proficiency without any tradeoff of first language development or subject matter mastery, little is known of immersion education in Japan.

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