Crossword clues for submersion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Submersion \Sub*mer"sion\, n. [L. submersio: cf. F. submersion.]
The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning.
The state of being put under water or other fluid, or of being overflowed or drowned.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "suffocation by being plunged into water," from Late Latin submersionem (nominative submersio) "a sinking, submerging," noun of action from past participle stem of submergere "to sink" (see submerge). General sense from early 17c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of submerge, or the state of being submerged; immersion 2 (context mathematics English) A differentiable map whose differential is everywhere surjective.
WordNet
n. sinking until covered completely with water [syn: submergence, submerging, immersion]
the act of wetting something by submerging it [syn: immersion, ducking, dousing]
Wikipedia
In mathematics, a submersion is a differentiable map between differentiable manifolds whose differential is everywhere surjective. This is a basic concept in differential topology. The notion of a submersion is dual to the notion of an immersion.
Submersion may refer to:
- Being underwater or going underwater: see scuba diving or submarine or :wikt:submerge.
- Submersion (mathematics), in the mathematical sense.
- Submersion (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of the television series Stargate Atlantis.
- Submersion (coastal management), is the sustainable cyclic portion of foreshore erosion
Submersion is the sustainable cyclic portion of coastal erosion where coastal sediments move from the visible portion of a beach to the submerged near shore region, and later return to the original visible portion of the beach. The recovery portion of the sustainable cycle of sediment behaviour is ( accretion).
Usage examples of "submersion".
A brisk sudsing revived him somewhat, as did several submersions to rinse the sweat and travel grime out of his hair.
Which is in some way not beyond the contrivance of Art, in submersions and Inlays, inverting the extremes of the plant, and fetching the root from the top, and also imitated in handsome columnary work, in the inversion of the extremes.
During that infernal submersion among demonry, the pair acquired the friendship-till-death of the shape-shifter Gildmirth of Sordon, whom they set at liberty from durance in that vile abyss.
Other than heat scarring, the droid looked sound, and the fuss he was making confirmed that his hermetic seals remained intact after both fire and submersion.
Did Stencil like his father suffer some private leeriness about Valletta - foresee some submersion, against his will, in a history too old for him, or at least of a different order from what he'd known?
It had been a close thing, far too close a thing, for in far sub-zero temperatures with a gale-force wind blowing, even a few seconds' submersion in water makes the certainty of death absolute, the process of dissolution as swift as it is irreversible.
In that Rosalind Steed of Devon has been found guilty of making violent threats against Thomas Broadnax of this town and his wife Julia, and because of her constant haranguing, she is sentenced to three submersions on the ducking stool.
Slight discolouration of vitreous enamel consistent with submersion in fairly highly concentrated sulphuric acid.