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Immersion is defined as covering or submerging in something.

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An example of immersion is when someone is baptized by being completely dunked under water.
An example of immersion is when you become completely absorbed in a book and don't look up from reading or pay attention to anything else.
An example of immersion is when you want to learn Spanish and you go to a special school for a month where only Spanish is spoken.

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See immersion in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an immersing or being immersed
baptism by immersing
Astron., Now Rare occultation or eclipse

Origin: LL(Ec) immersio

See immersion in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. The act or an instance of immersing.
b. The condition of being immersed.
Baptism performed by totally submerging a person in water.
Astronomy The obscuring of a celestial body by another or by the shadow of another.

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