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noun

Immersion n.

The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.

The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness. "Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life."

(Astron.) The dissapearance of a celestail 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.

Immersion lens, a microscopic objective of short focal distance designed to work with a drop of liquid, as oil, between the front lens and the slide, so that this lens is practically immersed.

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Etymology of 'Immersion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Immersion" Quotes from Famous Books

... symbols of the forces of nature, guardians of the world, demi-gods, demons, and heroes, whose worship, however, is considered as a mode of reaching that divine rest, immersion and absorption in Brahm. To this end are directed the sacrifices, the prayers, the ablutions, the pilgrimages, and the penances, which occupy so large a place ...

— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta

... had forgotten to insist that a man and woman register always as man and wife ... "because it was such hypocrisy" ... finally a dishwasher, who lived in a hall bed-room ... no friends because of his abstractedness, his immersion in oriental scholarship ... his only place of refuge, his dwelling place, when not washing dishes for a mere existence, ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... starting-point for her ascent of the Cordilleras. After having the good fortune to witness an eruption of Cotopaxi, she retraced her steps to the west. In the neighbourhood of Guayaquil she had two very narrow escapes: one, by a fall from her mule; and next, by an immersion in the River Guaya, which teems with alligators. Meeting with neither courtesy nor help from the Spanish Americans—a superstitious, ignorant, and degraded race—she gladly set ...

— The Story of Ida Pfeiffer - and Her Travels in Many Lands • Anonymous

... survival of the fittest! His idea of the flood in grandfather's time, only now he causes his selection by flames instead of flood! He believes that only those worthy to survive, and to stand at his back in whatever he conceives to be his need, will guess the secret of the immersion. ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various

... fact about the seeds of the furze, the more curious as I found with Leguminosae that immersion in plain cold water for a very few ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

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