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1. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
2. The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
3. Deep engagement in something.
4. (British, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
5. (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
6. (astronomy) 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.
7. (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
8. One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
9. (art) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.