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Definitions: Immersion |
ImmersionNoun1. Covering completely with water. 2. A form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged. 3. The act of submerging something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "immersion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Immersion \Im*mer"sion\, noun. [Latin expression immersio; compare to French immersion.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Food & Agriculture | A treatment in which timber is immersed in a preservative in water solution, normally at atmospheric temperature, for a period of an hour to several days, depending on the species, size and moisture content of the timber and the type of preservative used. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | The placing of a body or a part thereof into a liquid. (references) |
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Synonyms: ImmersionSynonyms: dousing (n), ducking (n), submergence (n), submerging (n), submersion (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insertion | Noun: insertion, implantation, introduction; insinuation; (intervention); planting; Verb: injection, inoculation, importation, infusion; forcible ingress; immersion; submersion, submergence, dip, plunge; bath; (water); interment. |
Water | Dilution, maceration, lotion; washing. Verb: immersion, humectation, infiltration, spargefaction, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation, bath. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Immersion (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Les Hydropathes. : Deuxième Traitement.- Immersion, Submersion et Contorsion! / Ch. Jacque.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | Again, this second rise of level causes a yet further immersion, and by consequence another displacement of liquid and another rise. |
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Economic History | Argentina | The most popular states for English immersion courses are Massachusetts, New York, and California. (references) |
Minorities | Canada | Provinces other than Quebec often lack adequate French-language schooling and health services, which is of concern to local francophones, although French-language schools and French immersion programs are reported to be thriving in all three prairie provinces. (references) |
Trade | Singapore | Under the Consumer Protection (Safety Requirements) Regulations of 1991, 17 products (LPG systems, cooking ranges, electric irons, gas cookers, hair dryers, microwave ovens, televisions, video display units, video cassette recorders, table fans, high-fidelity equipment, immersion water heaters, kettles, refrigerators, rice cookers, room air-conditioners, vacuum cleaners and washing machines) which are potentially hazardous to consumers must be registered and declared safe before they can be sold in Singapore. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BAPTISM, n. A sacred rite of such efficacy that he who finds himself in heaven without having undergone it will be unhappy forever. It is performed with water in two ways -- by immersion, or plunging, and by aspersion, or sprinkling. But whether the plan of immersion Is better than simple aspersion Let those immersed And those aspersed Decide by the Authorized Version, And by matching their agues tertian. G.J. |
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| "Immersion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Immersion" is used about 218 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 218 | 20,478 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Immersion Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "immersion": immersion coil ♦ immersion foot ♦ immersion foot White ♦ immersion heater ♦ Immersion lens ♦ immersion reflow soldering ♦ immersion suit ♦ immersion vibrator. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "immersion": immersion-in-myth. | |
Ending with "immersion": oil-immersion, re-immersion, tele-immersion, total-immersion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
total immersion | 81 |
immersion heater | 75 |
immersion | 64 |
spanish immersion | 61 |
french immersion | 41 |
immersion research | 30 |
immersion swimming total | 26 |
instant immersion | 26 |
immersion part washer | 21 |
immersion cleaning | 21 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "immersion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | imersim, zhytje (absorption, dip, dipping, dive, diving, duck out, infusion, plunging, sinking, submergence), ulje (commutation, cut, cutback, decrease, degradation, depression, derogation, descent, diminution, disparagement, down, drop, falling, inclination, knee bend, landing, modulation, rebate, reduction, relaxation, sinking), kredhje (dip, dive, diving, duck out, plunge). (various references) | |
Arabic | غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, submerge, suffuse, swamp, wash), غطس (dip, dive, douse, duck, immerse, plunge, plunk, sink, submerge), الاحتجاب, إنغمار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | затъмнение (blackout, dim out, eclipse, obscuration, occultation), задълбоченост (absorption), задълбочаване, потъване (sinking, submergence, submersion, subsidence), потапяне (dip, duck, submergence, submersion), поглъщане (absorption, adsorption, intake, intussusception, take over). (various references) | |
Chinese | 浸' , 浸没 (immerse, Immersed, Immersing). (various references) | |
Czech | ponoření (plunge, submersion), pohroužení. (various references) | |
Danish | immersion, neddypning (dipping, dipping treatment, submergence, submersion), neddykning (under water), langtidsdypning (steeping, steeping treatment). (various references) | |
Dutch | indompeling (dipping, dipping treatment, steeping, steeping treatment), immersie (dipping), onderdompeling in water waarin conserveringsmiddel is opgelost (steeping, steeping treatment), onderdompeling (dipping, dipping treatment, steeping, steeping treatment, submergence, submersion), het zakken (under water), dompeling (case, dipping, soaking), dippen (dipping, dipping treatment, steeping, steeping treatment). (various references) | |
Finnish | allaskyllästys (steeping, steeping treatment). (various references) | |
French | immersion. (various references) | |
German | vertiefung (absorption, bay, cave, cavity, consolidation, deepening, dent, depression, dip, engrossment, extension, flattening, form, heightening, hollow, impression, indent, indentation, mould form, mould impression, pit, pocket recess, recess, reinforcement, sludge, step), eintauchen (dip, dip into, dive, dive in, Dunk, immerse, plunge, sink, soak, souse, steep, steeping, to dip (in, to souse). (various references) | |
Greek | βύθιση (depressed area, depression, dive, foundering, plunge, sinking, under water). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שקיע" במחשבות (preoccupation), "טבל" (baptism, dipping), טביל" (dipping, duck). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elmerülés (absorption, engrossment, submergence), belemártás, alámerítés (submergence). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pencelupan (dyeing). (various references) | |
Italian | immersione (dip, dipping, dipping treatment, dive, diving, draft, draught, inclination, pitch, plunge, rake, sinking, steeping, steeping treatment, strike, submergence, submersion, under water). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 湯煎 (warming something by immersion in hot water), 浸礼 (baptism by immersion), 再浸礼 (rebaptism by immersion), 再受浸 (rebaptism by immersion). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し"れい (baptism by immersion, divine spirit, hand bell, new example, ringing of a bell, spirit), さいし"れい (rebaptism by immersion), さいじゅし" (rebaptism by immersion), ゆせ" (fee for public bath, warming something by immersion in hot water). (various references) | |
Korean | 침수. (various references) | |
Manx | thummey (dip, dive, douse, duck; diving, ducking, immerse, lunge, pitch, plunge, soak, sop, steep, steeping, submerge, submersion). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immersionay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inmersão prolongada (steeping, steeping treatment), imerso (submerged), imersão prolongada (steeping, steeping treatment), imersão (dip, dipping, dipping treatment, immigrant, plunge, soaking, steeping, submergence, submersion). (various references) | |
Romanian | imersiune (dipping, submergence), cufundare (dip, dipping, duck, sinking), afundare (dip, dive, ducking, plunge, sinking). (various references) | |
Russian | погружение (dip, dipping, diving, plunge, sinking, submergence, submersion). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaronjenje (submersion), potapanje (dip, sinking, submergence, submersion). (various references) | |
Spanish | inmersión (dip, dipping, dive, plunge, steeping, submergence, submersion, under water). (various references) | |
Swedish | nedsänkning (dip, submergence, submersion). (various references) | |
Thai | การหมกมุ่น (engrossment), การจุ่มศีรษะ ร่างกายส่วนบนหรือทั้งร่างลงในน้ำตามพิธีในศาสนาคริสต์, การจุ่ม (dip). (various references) | |
Turkish | tutulma (attack, being held, Crick, eclipse, fastening, go, kink, popularity), dalma (absorption, contemplation, dip, dipping, dive, diving, engrossment, plunge, scuba diving, submersion), daldırma (dip, dipping, submersion), batırma (jab, ruin, sinking, submersion). (various references) | |
Ukranian | хрещення (baptism, christening), занурення (dip, dipping, dive, diving, plunge, plunging, sinking, steep). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nhúng (dip), sự nhận chìm (engulfment), sự ngập v o. (various references) | |
Welsh | trochfa (plunge). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | in-. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "immersion": immersions. (additional references) | |
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"Immersion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amerasian, emmersion, imersion, imression, Minervino. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "immersion" (pronounced i'mer"zhun) |
| 5 | -m er" zh u n | submersion. |
| 4 | -er" zh u n | aspersion, aversion, conversion, dispersion, diversion, excursion, incursion, inversion, perversion, reversion, subversion, version. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, allusion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, corrosion, decision, delusion, derision, diffusion, disillusion, division, envision, equation, erosion, evasion, excision, exclusion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, implosion, incision, inclusion, indecision, infusion, intrusion, invasion, lesion, misprision, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, precision, preclusion, profusion, provision, recision, rescission, revision, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, supervision, television, transfusion, vision. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-m-m-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: misnomer. | |
-2 letters: ironies, memoirs, merinos, noisier. | |
-3 letters: eonism, imines, immies, ionise, irones, isomer, memoir, merino, mimeos, mimers, miners, minims, minors, moires, momser, monies, monism, nomism, nosier, rimose, senior, sermon, simmer. | |
-4 letters: emirs, enorm, eosin, imine, imino, irone, irons, memos, meson, miens, mimeo, mimer, mimes, miner, mines, minim, minis, minor, mires, miser, moire, momes, monie, mores, morns, morse, nisei, noirs, noise, nomes, noris, norms, omens, omers, ornis, osier, reins, resin, rimes, rinse, risen, rosin, senor, serin, siren, snore. | |
-5 letters: emir, eons, erns, eros, inro, ions, ires, iris, iron, memo, mems, meno, mien, mime, mine, mini, mire, miri, mirs, mise, miso, mome, momi, moms, mons, more, morn, mors, nims, nisi, noes, noir, nome, noms, nori, norm, nose, omen, omer, ones, ores, rein, reis, rems, rime, rims, rins, rise, roes, roms, rose, semi, sine, sire, some, sone, sore, sori, sorn. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-m-m-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: immersions, memorising. | |
+2 letters: matrimonies, misinformed. | |
+3 letters: commissioner, imprisonment, recommission. | |
+4 letters: ceremonialism, commiserating, commiseration, commissioners, immoderations, impressionism, imprisonments, memorialising, memorizations, minicomputers, misimpression, recommissions. | |
+5 letters: ceremonialisms, commiserations, commissionaire, impoverishment, impressionisms, microanatomies, microeconomics, microfilaments, misimpressions, recommissioned, symmetrization. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 6D 65 72 73 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- -- . .-. ... .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01101101 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m m e r s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 006D 0065 0072 0073 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437979718485758180 |
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