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Vinony

immerse

verb

  1. cover completely with a fluid
  2. to engage wholly or deeply, engulf completely
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɜːs/ / /ɪˈmɜɹs/

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin immersus, from immergō, from in + mergō.

  1. Immersed; buried; sunk.

    “After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.”

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin immersus, from immergō, from in + mergō.

  1. To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).

    “Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.”

    “... the two plates of platinum immersed in oxygen and hydrogen gases”

  2. To involve or engage deeply.

    “The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.”

  3. To map into an immersion.

    “Thus, in mathematical terms a Klein bottle cannot be "embedded" but only "immersed" in three dimensions as an embedding has no self-intersections but an immersion may have them.”