Immersion

Definition of Immersion

Im`mer´sion
n.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.

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