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Emersion (noun)
Emergence, especially from the water.
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Emersion (noun)
The reappearance of a heavenly body after being eclipsed by another or by the sun’s brightness.
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Immersion (noun)
The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
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Immersion (noun)
The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
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Immersion (noun)
An immersion heater.
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Immersion (noun)
A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
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Immersion (noun)
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.
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Immersion (noun)
A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
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Emersion (noun)
the process of emerging from water after being submerged
“some coral species can survive emersion for up to three hours”
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Emersion (noun)
the reappearance of a celestial body after its eclipse or occultation.
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Immersion (noun)
the action of immersing someone or something in a liquid
“his back was still raw from immersion in the icy Atlantic sea”
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Immersion (noun)
baptism by immersing a person bodily (but not necessarily completely) in water.
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Immersion (noun)
deep mental involvement in something
“a week’s immersion in the culinary heritage of Puglia”
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Immersion (noun)
a method of teaching a foreign language by the exclusive use of that language
“an immersion school”
“as a teacher she advocates learning by immersion”
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Immersion (noun)
the disappearance of a celestial body in the shadow of or behind another.