immersion
See also: Immersion
English edit
Etymology edit
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈmɝʒən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
Noun edit
immersion (countable and uncountable, plural immersions)
- The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
- The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
- Deep engagement in something.
- 2016, David Waugh, Sally Neaum, Rosemary Waugh, Children's Literature in Primary Schools, page 80:
- Recognising and knowing how to understand visual imagery in relation to a narrative in picture books is primarily a matter of immersion in books within a specific culture.
- The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
- (Britain, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
- (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
- (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.
- Antonym: emersion
- 2009, Steven Wepster, Between Theory and Observations, Springer Science, →ISBN, page 178:
- An occultation of a star by the moon provides two sharply defined observable phenomena: the disappearance of a star behind the disc of the moon (called its immersion), and its subsequent reappearance (or emersion).
- (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
- 2001, Mary Goebel Noguchi, Sandra Fotos, Studies in Japanese Bilingualism, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 272:
- Although numerous studies have reported the effectiveness of immersion programmes in developing relatively high levels of second language proficiency without any tradeoff of first language development or subject matter mastery, little is known of immersion education in Japan.
- One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
- (art) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
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Translations edit
the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
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the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism
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deep engagement in something
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in mathematics
Further reading edit
- Immersion in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- immersion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “immersion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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Finnish edit
Noun edit
immersion
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
immersion f (plural immersions)
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Further reading edit
- “immersion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.