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See also: 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/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)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.
- 1988 December 11, Elizabeth Pincus, “Truman Capote: The Gossip, The Dirt”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 7:
- In examining Capote, Clarke follows the course of the precocious writer's life with painstaking attention to gossipy detail. It's an exhaustive roller coaster of a read, a high-tilt immersion into the social swirl and scandal that accompanied most of Capote's adult life.
- 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.
- The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
- 2020, Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing But Blue Sky, Penguin, →ISBN:
- 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.
- (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
- 2009, Steven Wepster, Between Theory and Observations, Springer Science, →ISBN, page 178:
- 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).
- (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
- 2001, Mary Goebel Noguchi, Sandra Fotos, Studies in Japanese Bilingualism, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 272:
- 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.
- 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
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Translations
the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
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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
- “immersion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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Finnish
Noun
immersion
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
immersion f (plural immersions)
- immersion
- language immersion
Related terms
- immerger
- immerseur
Further reading
- “immersion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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