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Immersion

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

(Lat. immersio, dipping), the act of being plunged into a fluid, or being overwhelmed by anything; in astronomy, the disappearance of a heavenly body in the shadow of another, especially of a satellite in the shadow of its primary.

Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Immersion'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​i/immersion.html. 1910.