Definition of "immersion" in English

noun

1. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.

2. (British, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.

3. (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.

4. (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.

5. (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.

6. One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.

7. (art) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.