immerse
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin immersus, from immergō, from in + mergō.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editimmerse (third-person singular simple present immerses, present participle immersing, simple past and past participle immersed)
- (transitive) To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).
- 1883, The Electrical Journal, page 501:
- ... the two plates of platinum immersed in oxygen and hydrogen gases
- 1841, William Rhind, A history of the vegetable kingdom, page 110:
- Even after the process of germination has taken place, if the young plant be immersed in an atmosphere of either of those gases [hydrogen and nitrogen], vegetation and life will immediately cease.
- 1955, George Shortley, Dudley Williams, Elements of Physics for Students of Science and Engineering:
- The buoyant force of the atmospheric air on solids and liquids immersed in it is for most purposes negligible compared to the weight of solid or liquid, ...
- Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.
- (transitive) To involve or engage deeply.
- The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.
- (transitive, mathematics) To map into an immersion.
- 2002, Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture, page 40:
- 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.
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editTranslations
editto put under the surface of a liquid
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to involve deeply
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Adjective
editimmerse (comparative more immerse, superlative most immerse)
- (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.
Italian
editAdjective
editimmerse f pl
Verb
editimmerse
- inflection of immergere:
- third-person singular past historic
- feminine plural past participle
Latin
editParticiple
editimmerse
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