immersion
pronunciation
How to pronounce immersion in British English:
UK [ɪˈmɜ:ʃn]
How to pronounce immersion in American English:
US [ɪˈmɜrʃn]
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- Noun:
- sinking until covered completely with water
- (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
- the act of wetting something by submerging it
Word Origin
- immersion (n.)
- mid-15c., from Late Latin immersionem (nominative immersio), noun of action from past participle stem of immergere, from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + Latin mergere "plunge, dip" (see merge). Meaning "absorption in some interest or situation" is from 1640s. As a method of teaching a foreign language, it is from 1965, trademarked by the Berlitz company.
Example
- 1. I thought of a total immersion option .
- 2. The deloitte consulting immersion programme , launched in 2010 , is already a success .
- 3. It is about total immersion in a place , because nobody from any other place can contact you .
- 4. But we don 't necessarily have to think of immersion in the virtual and augmentation of the physical as opposites .
- 5. The capital is a city of romance and revolution , and living here means a deep immersion in the mysteries of the russian soul .