immersion
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 沉浸，专心，陷入
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 继承自 ←中古英语
- 源自 ←晚期拉丁语 immersio “dipping”
词源说明
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
- (UK, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
- (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
- (astronomy) 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.
- (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
- One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
- (art) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.