immersion

== English == === Etymology === From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈmɜːʃən/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈmɝʒən/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən Hyphenation: im‧mer‧sion === 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. (British, 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. Antonym: emersion (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student. One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world. (art) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Immersion in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) immersion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “immersion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. === Anagrams === semi-minor, semiminor == Finnish == === Noun === immersion genitive singular of immersio === Anagrams === seminormi == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /i.mɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ Hyphenation: im‧mer‧sion === Noun === immersion f (plural immersions) immersion language immersion ==== Related terms ==== ==== Further reading ==== “immersion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012