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   immersion

   /ɪˈməːʃn/

   noun

   • 1. the action of immersing someone or something in a liquid: "his back was still raw from immersion in the icy Atlantic sea"
   • ▪ baptism by immersing a person bodily (but not necessarily completely) in water.
   • 2. deep mental involvement in something: "a week's immersion in the culinary heritage of Puglia"
   • ▪ a method of teaching a foreign language by the exclusive use of that language: "as a teacher she advocates learning by immersion"
   • 3. the disappearance of a celestial body in the shadow of or behind another.

   Word Origin late 15th century: from late Latin immersio(n-), from immergere ‘dip into’ (see immerse).

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