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im⋅mer⋅sion

[i-mur-zhuhn, -shuhn]
–noun
1. an act or instance of immersing.
2. state of being immersed.
3. state of being deeply engaged or involved; absorption.
4. baptism in which the whole body of the person is submerged in the water.
5. Also called ingress. Astronomy. the entrance of a heavenly body into an eclipse by another body, an occultation, or a transit. Compare emersion (def. 1).
–adjective
6. concentrating on one course of instruction, subject, or project to the exclusion of all others for several days or weeks; intensive: an immersion course in conversational French.

Origin:
1425–75; late ME < LL immersiōn- (s. of immersiō) a dipping in. See immerse, -ion
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im·mer·sion   (ĭ-mûr'zhən, -shən)   
n.  
    1. The act or an instance of immersing.

    2. The condition of being immersed.

  1. Baptism performed by totally submerging a person in water.

  2. Astronomy The obscuring of a celestial body by another or by the shadow of another.

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Word Origin & History

immersion 
c.1450, from L.L. immersionem (nom. immersio), noun of action from immergere, from L. in- "into" + mergere "plunge, dip" (see merge). Meaning "absorption in some interest or situation" is from 1647. As a method of teaching a foreign language, it is from 1965, trademarked by the Berlitz company.
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immersion im·mer·sion (ĭ-mûr'zhən, -shən)
n.

  1. The placing of a body under water or other liquid.

  2. The use of a fluid on a microscope slide in order to exclude air from between the glass slide and the bottom lens.


im·merse' (ĭ-mûrs') v.

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