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.
Wiktionary
n. A microscopic objective of short focal distance designed to work with a drop of liquid between the front lens and the slide, so that this lens is practically immersed.
Usage examples of "immersion lens".
Malovar put a drop of oil on the slide and switched to his oil-immersion lens for higher magnification.
The surface seemed so shiny and unblemished that I had no reason to magnify it, but once having thought of my old Leitz with its splendid high-power oil-immersion lens, I reconsidered.