Immersion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)Ê’É™n

Full definition of immersion

Noun

1. the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
2. the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism
3. (British, Ireland, informal) an immersion heater
4. (mathematics) a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding
5. (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.

Anagrams

• semiminor