Immersion1. (n.) Submersion in water; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.
2. (n.) Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.
3. (n.) The state of being overwhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
4. (n.) 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; -- opposed to emersion.
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