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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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  1. n. 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.
  2. n. Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.
  3. n. The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
  4. n. 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.
  5. n. sinking until covered completely with water
  6. n. (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
  7. n. complete attention; intense mental effort
  8. n. a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
  9. n. the act of wetting something by submerging it
  10. 1. 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. 2. Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists. 3. The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness. Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life. Atterbury. 4. (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.
  11. The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behindanother, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as inthe eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion. Immersion lens, amicroscopic objective of short focal distance designed to work with adrop of liquid, as oil, between the front lens and the slide, so thatthis lens is practically immersed.
  12. n:100 n. a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged