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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immersion \Im*mer"sion\, n. [L. immersio; cf. F. immersion.]
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.
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The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life.
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(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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Late Latin immersionem (nominative immersio), noun of action from past participle stem of immergere, from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + Latin mergere "plunge, dip" (see merge). Meaning "absorption in some interest or situation" is from 1640s. As a method of teaching a foreign language, it is from 1965, trademarked by the Berlitz company.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed 2 the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism 3 (context British Ireland informal English) an immersion heater 4 (context mathematics English) a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding 5 (context astronomy English) 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; opposed to emersion.
WordNet
n. sinking until covered completely with water [syn: submergence, submerging, submersion]
(astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse [syn: ingress] [ant: egress, egress]
complete attention; intense mental effort [syn: concentration, engrossment, absorption]
a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
the act of wetting something by submerging it [syn: submersion, ducking, dousing]
Wikipedia
Immersion may refer to:
- Immersion therapy, overcoming fears through confrontation
- Baptism by immersion
- Immersion Games, a developer of video games
- Immersion lithography or immersion microscopy, optical techniques in which liquid is between the objective and image plane in order to raise numerical aperture
- Language immersion, a method of teaching a second language in which the target language is used for instruction
- Immersion (mathematics), a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding
- Telepresence, also called teleimmersion
- Immersion (virtual reality), the state of consciousness where an immersant's awareness of physical self is diminished or lost by being surrounded in an engrossing total environment
- Immersion Corporation, a haptic technology developer
- Immersion heater, a kind of water heater
- Immersion journalism, a style of journalism
- Immersion (album), the third album from Australian electronica and drum and bass group Pendulum
- Immersion (series), a webseries created by Rooster Teeth Productions
- WinRT applications, also called “Immersive”
- "Immersion", a Nebula Award-winning story by Aliette de Bodard
In mathematics, an immersion is a differentiable function between differentiable manifolds whose derivative is everywhere injective. Explicitly, is an immersion if
Df : TM → TN
is an injective function at every point p of M (where TX denotes the tangent space of a manifold X at a point p in X). Equivalently, f is an immersion if its derivative has constant rank equal to the dimension of M:
rank Df = dimM.
The function f itself need not be injective, only its derivative.
A related concept is that of an embedding. A smooth embedding is an injective immersion that is also a topological embedding, so that M is diffeomorphic to its image in N. An immersion is precisely a local embedding – i.e., for any point there is a neighbourhood, , of x such that is an embedding, and conversely a local embedding is an immersion. For infinite dimensional manifolds, this is sometimes taken to be the definition of an immersion.
If M is compact, an injective immersion is an embedding, but if M is not compact then injective immersions need not be embeddings; compare to continuous bijections versus homeomorphisms.
Immersion are a sound and art duo composed of Wire & Githead's Colin Newman & Minimal Compact & Githead's Malka Spigel.
The duo made 3 albums in the 90's on the swim ~ label and also made video-driven performances in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall in London and the Knitting Factory in New York. their 2nd album "Full Immersion" was a collaboration with a number of other electronic music artists including g-man, Claude Young, Fred Giannelli, Scanner, Vapourspace & Mick Harris.
Immersion into virtual reality is a perception of being physically present in a non-physical world. The perception is created by surrounding the user of the VR system in images, sound or other stimuli that provide an engrossing total environment.
The name is a metaphoric use of the experience of submersion applied to representation, fiction or simulation. Immersion can also be defined as the state of consciousness where a "visitor" ( Maurice Benayoun) or "immersant" ( Char Davies)'s awareness of physical self is transformed by being surrounded in an artificial environment; used for describing partial or complete suspension of disbelief, enabling action or reaction to stimulations encountered in a virtual or artistic environment. The degree to which the virtual or artistic environment faithfully reproduces reality determines the degree of suspension of disbelief. The greater the suspension of disbelief, the greater the degree of presence achieved.
Immersion is the third studio album by Australian-British band Pendulum. The album was announced in early 2009, with the name being confirmed in December 2009. The album was released 21 May 2010 in Australia and Ireland, and 24 May for the rest of the world, followed by a UK tour of the album. In January 2010 Pendulum hosted the album preview Ear Storm event at Matter in London in which many top DJs performed sets of their own with Pendulum being the headliners.
The album was finished on 18 April 2010 and mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios in Los Angeles.
Immersion peaked at number 1 in the UK Official Top 40 charts in its first week of release.
The album features collaborations with Liam Howlett, Steven Wilson and the Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames.
Usage examples of "immersion".
Mysteries with good reason adumbrate the immersion of the unpurified in filth, even in the Nether-World, since the unclean loves filth for its very filthiness, and swine foul of body find their joy in foulness.
Hence the Mysteries with good reason adumbrate the immersion of the unpurified in filth, even in the Nether-World, since the unclean loves filth for its very filthiness, and swine foul of body find their joy in foulness.
A similar result followed from an immersion of only 15 minutes in a solution of one part of carbonate of ammonia to 218 of water, and the adjoining cells of the tentacles, on which the papillae were seated, now likewise contained aggregated masses of protoplasm.
But in many parts of the world the ordinary way of baptizing is by immersion.
But now that this motive has ceased, trine immersion is universally observed in Baptism: and consequently anyone baptizing otherwise would sin gravely, through not following the ritual of the Church.
New Age imperialisms, to biocentric and ecocentric immersion in precisely the sphere that cannot itself take universal perspectivism.
No nasty Ascent here: let the id be our guide to paradise, and let biocentric immersion lead the way to the glorious spirit for all.
Here, on the conversion of the Birts to Christianity, the sacred rite of baptism was performed by immersion in the waters of the Severn, and when they died, our Edwards, or Ealdwulfs, and their Ethelgifas were laid in the grave to the ringing of the passing bell.
Andromeda about the period of the birth of Stephen Dedalus, and in and from the constellation of Auriga some years after the birth and death of Rudolph Bloom, junior, and in and from other constellations some years before or after the birth or death of other persons: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar and lunar, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, transit of shadow, taciturnity of winged creatures, emergence of nocturnal or crepuscular animals, persistence of infernal light, obscurity of terrestrial waters, pallor of human beings.
It does not appear probable that pure water would cause much exosmose, and yet aggregation often follows from an immersion in water of between 16 hrs.
This intensive, exclusive immersion in spiritual readings provided an anchor and gave them something to sustain them through the days ahead Jake DeS hazer seemed especially moved, and he worked deliberately to change his LIFE in accordance with biblical teachings.
And there has been some speculation that immersion in hyperbaric oxygen-that is, oxygen under high pressure-can raise the intelligence of infants.
Sacred baths and preparatory baptisms were used, lustrations, immersions, lustral sprinklings, and purifications of every kind.
Popery, contempt of Anglican priestcraft and apostolic succession, and adhesion to the dogma of adult baptism and total immersion.
At last, with a horrible splash, he darted like an arrow into the ice-cold water, and as he did so he uttered a shrill cry, stifled in a moment by his immersion beneath the waves.