1. Noun
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. Noun
Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.
3. Noun
The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
4. Noun
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.
5. Noun
(astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
Vocabulary classified under Physics
6. Noun
complete attention; intense mental effort
Vocabulary classified under Psychology
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