immersion

  1. Noun.  the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
  2. Noun.  the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
  3. Noun.  (British, Ireland) an immersion heater.
  4. Noun.  (mathematics) a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.

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