submersion

1 sinking until covered completely with water [syn: submergence, submerging, immersion]

2 the act of wetting something by submerging it [syn: immersion, ducking, dousing]

English

Noun

1. The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion
2. See submersion (mathematics)

Translations

• Italian: immersione

Submersion may refer to:

• Being underwater or going underwater: see scuba diving or submarine or :wikt:submerge.
• Submersion (mathematics), in the mathematical sense.
• Submersion (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of the television series Stargate Atlantis.
• Submersion (Coastal Management), is the sustainable cyclic portion of foreshore erosion where coastal sediments move from the visible portion of a beach to the submerged nearshore region, and later are able to return to the original visible portion of the beach.

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See also

• Immersion

absorbed attention, absorption, affusion, alluvion, alluvium, application, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, burial, cataclysm, concentration, contemplation, dampening, damping, deep study, deep thought, deluge, dewing, dip, dipping, displacement, dousing, draft, drowning, duck, ducking, dunking, engagement, engrossment, engulfment, flood, flooding, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immergence, immersion, intentness, inundation, involvement, irrigation, laving, meditation, moistening, monomania, obsession, overflow, overflowing, overrunning, preoccupation, profound thought, rapt attention, rinsing, single-mindedness, sinkage, sinking, souse, sousing, sparging, spattering, spill, spillage, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, studiousness, study, submergence, swashing, the Deluge, the Flood, washout, watering, wetting, whelming