immersion

English

Etymology

From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersio, immersionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɝʒən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)ʒən

Noun

immersion (countable and uncountable, plural immersions)

1. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
   1. The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
   2. 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.

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; opposed to emersion.
5. (linguistics) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.

Related terms

• immerse
• immersive

Translations

the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed

• Bulgarian: потапяне n (potapjane)
• Catalan: immersió (ca) f
• Czech: ponoření n, potopení n, ponor (cs) m
• Dutch: onderdompeling
• Finnish: upotus (fi), upottaminen (fi)
• French: immersion (fr) f
• German: Eintauchen n
• Greek:

  Ancient: βαφή f (baphḗ)

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• Irish: bá m, deochadh (ga) m, folcadh m, fothragadh m, tumadh m
• Maori: rumakanga
• Portuguese: imersão (pt)
• Russian: погруже́ние (ru) n (pogružénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: tumadh m
• Spanish: inmersión (es) f
• Telugu: మునక (te) (munaka)

the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism

• Finnish: upotuskaste (fi)
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• German: Untertauchen n

in mathematics

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浸入 (zh) (jìnrù)

• French: immersion (fr) f
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• German: Immersion (de) f
• Portuguese: imersão (pt) f

Further reading

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Anagrams

• semiminor

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Finnish

Noun

immersion

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of immersio

Anagrams

• seminormi

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem.

Noun

immersion f (plural immersions)

1. immersion
2. language immersion

Related terms

• immerger

Further reading

• “immersion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.