immersion

noun

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

2. An immersion heater.

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

4. 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. A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.