immersion
Other forms: immersions
Immersion is the act of dipping something in a substance, completely covering it. It might be something physical, such as plunging your body into water, or metaphorical, such as becoming totally immersed in a project.
The Latin background of immersion includes the root mergere, "to plunge." The idea of immersion as a physical submergence came first and the idea of something being absorbed in a situation came about later. The idea behind immersion is that of complete coverage, whether that be by water, as in Baptism, or by attention, as in "immersion learning," an idea for learning a language trademarked in 1965 by the Berlitz company.
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the act of wetting something by submerging itsynonyms: dousing, ducking, submersiontype of:wettingthe act of making something wet
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sinking until covered completely with watersynonyms: submergence, submerging, submersion
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a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submergedtypes:trine immersionbaptism by immersion three times (in the names in turn of the Trinity)type of:baptisma Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth
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complete attention; intense mental effortsynonyms: absorption, concentration, engrossmenttypes:centering, direction, focal point, focus, focusing, focussingthe concentration of attention or energy on somethingspecialismthe concentration of your efforts on a particular field of study or occupationstudya state of deep mental absorptionparticularisma focus on something particulartype of:attentionthe faculty or power of mental concentration
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(astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipsesynonyms: ingressantonyms:emersion(astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipsetype of:disappearancethe event of passing out of sight
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