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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). quotations examples
... the two plates of platinum immersed in oxygen and hydrogen gases
1883, The Electrical Journal, page 501
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.
1841, William Rhind, A history of the vegetable kingdom, page 110
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, ...
1955, George Shortley, Dudley Williams, Elements of Physics for Students of Science and Engineering
(transitive) To involve or engage deeply. examples
(transitive, mathematics) To map into an immersion. quotations examples
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.
2002, Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture, page 40
comparative more immerse, superlative most immerse
(obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk. quotations
After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.
1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]