immersion

immersion has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.
• n.. The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
• n.. 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.
• n.. the act of wetting something by submerging it
• n.. a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
• n.. complete attention; intense mental effort
• n.. (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
• n.. sinking until covered completely with water