immersion
Pronunciation:
/ɪˈmɝʒən/noun
Definitions
The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
An immersion heater.
A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
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.
Antonyms:emersion