immerse

English

Etymology

From Latin immersus, from immergō, from in + mergō.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

Verb

immerse (third-person singular simple present immerses, present participle immersing, simple past and past participle immersed)

1. (transitive) To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.

   Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.

2. (transitive) To involve deeply

   The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.

3. (mathematics) This word needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 2002, Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture (page 40)

     Thus, in mathematical terms a Klein bottle cannot be "embedded" but only "immersed" in three dimensions as an embedding has no self-intersections but an immersion may have them.

Translations

to put under the surface of a liquid

• Arabic: يضع تحت سطح الماء أو يتعمق في موضوع\دراسة (ar)
• Dutch: onderdompelen (nl)
• Finnish: upottaa (fi)
• French: immerger (fr)
• German: eintauchen (de)
• Hindi: डुबाना (hi) (ḍubānā)
• Maori: rumaki (mi)
• Quechua: chinkaykuy (qu)

• Russian: погружать (ru) (pogružátʹ) impf., погрузить (ru) (pogruzítʹ) pf., окунать (ru) (okunátʹ) impf., окунуть (ru) (okunútʹ) pf.
• Sardinian:

  Logudorese Sardinian: imbèrghere

• Spanish: sumergir (es)
• Telugu: ముంచు (te) (munchu)
• Urdu: ڈُبانا (ur) (ḍubānā)

to involve deeply

• Finnish: uppoutua (fi)
• French: immerger (fr)
• German: vertiefen (de)

• Russian: погружаться (ru) (pogružátʹsja) impf., погрузиться (ru) (pogruzítʹsja) pf., уйти с головой (ru) (ujtí s golovój) pf.
• Spanish: sumergirse (es)

Synonyms

• submerge

Derived terms

• immersion
• immersive

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Italian

Adjective

immerse f pl

1. feminine plural of immerso

Verb

immerse

1. third-person singular past historic of immergere
2. feminine plural past participle of immergere

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Latin

Participle

immerse

1. vocative masculine singular of immersus