immersion
/ɪˈmɝʒən/
Frequency: 3.47 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Jesus did not become known as a baptizer (cf. however John 3:26 and 4:1), but we can recognize the same ritual structure in his healing practice as in John's immersion."
- "In examining Capote, Clarke follows the course of the precocious writer's life with painstaking attention to gossipy detail. It's an exhaustive roller coaster of a read, a high-tilt immersion into the social swirl and scandal that accompanied most of Capote's adult life."
- "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."
- "She left the immersion on all the time, while I had been reared under pain of death to turn it off as soon as the bathwater was heated."
- "Note that every embedding is an immersion, but the converse is not true. For an immersion to be an embedding, it must be one-to-one and the inverse must be continuous."
- "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)."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, immersio
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪˈmɝʒən/
- British English: /ɪˈmɜːʃən/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage
- Informal