IMMERSION
\ɪmˈɜːʃən], \ɪmˈɜːʃən], \ɪ_m_ˈɜː_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of IMMERSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the act of wetting something by submerging it
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a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
By Princeton University
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the act of wetting something by submerging it
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a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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1. The placing of a body under water or other liquid. 2. Specifically, in microscopy, the use of an immersion-lens.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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The act of immersing; the state of being immersed or deeply engaged; the disappearance of a celestial body behind or in the shadow of another.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act of plunging into a liquid till covered; baptism by plunging amongst water; in astron., the approach of one celestial body into such a position with respect to another as apparently to sink into it and disappear.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The plunging of a body into a liquid.
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The use of the microscope with the object and object-glass both covered with a liquid.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed.
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In microscopy, the act of immersing the objective (then called an immersion lens) in water, oil, etc., which prevents the total reflection of the rays falling obliquely upon the peripheral portions of the objective.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act of immersing, or state of being immersed ; - state of being overwhelmed or deeply engaged ; - disappearance of a celestial body by passing either behind another, or into its shadow ;- mode of baptizing among Baptists ; dipping of the whole body, as opposed to sprinkling.
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