Immersion vs. Submersion

Immersion vs. Submersion — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Immersion and Submersion

Immersionnoun

The act or an instance of immersing.

Submersionverb

To submerge.

Immersionnoun

The condition of being immersed.

Submersionnoun

The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion

Immersionnoun

Baptism performed by totally submerging a person in water.

Submersionnoun

(mathematics) A differentiable map whose differential is everywhere surjective.

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Immersionnoun

(Astronomy) The obscuring of a celestial body by another or by the shadow of another.

Submersionnoun

sinking until covered completely with water

Immersionnoun

The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.

Submersionnoun

the act of wetting something by submerging it

Immersionnoun

The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.

Immersionnoun

Deep engagement in something.

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Immersionnoun

An immersion heater.

Immersionnoun

(mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.

Immersionnoun

(astronomy) 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; opposed to emersion.

Immersionnoun

(linguistics) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.

Immersionnoun

sinking until covered completely with water

Immersionnoun

(astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse

Immersionnoun

complete attention; intense mental effort

Immersionnoun

a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged

Immersionnoun

the act of wetting something by submerging it