immersion

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Synonyms: inversion, emersion, immersive, mersion, demersion, immersing, immission, reimmersion, immersions, emmerson, jimmerson

Antonyms: inversion, emersion, immersive, mersion, demersion, immersing, immission, reimmersion, immersions, emmerson, jimmerson

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Noun

1. The act of [[immersing]] or the condition of being [[immersed]].
2. {{lb|en|British|Ireland|informal}} An [[immersion heater]].
3. {{lb|en|mathematics}} A [[smooth]] map whose [[differential]] is everywhere [[injective]], related to the mathematical concept of an [[embedding]].
4. {{lb|en|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]].
5. {{senseid|en|language teaching}} {{lb|en|education}} A form of [[foreign]]-[[language]] [[teaching]] where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
6. One's [[suspension of disbelief]] while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
7. {{lb|en|art}} A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the {{w|Brooklyn Immersionists}}.

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