Immersion Meaning
/ɪˈmɜːʃən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
nounThe act of immersing or the condition of being immersed., The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
Sentence Examples
The language students participated in an immersion program.
He needed a Berber language immersion course.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Language ____ programs require students to speak only the target language all day.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The school offers a language ____ program where all the classes are taught entirely in French.
Word Origin & History
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Jesus did not become known as a baptizer (cf. however John 3:26 and 4:1), but we can recognize the same ritual structure in his healing practice as in John's immersion."
— 2016, Risto Uro, Ritual and Christian Beginnings, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 98:
"In examining Capote, Clarke follows the course of the precocious writer's life with painstaking attention to gossipy detail. It's an exhaustive roller coaster of a read, a high-tilt immersion into the social swirl and scandal that accompanied most of Capote's adult life."
— 1988 December 11, Elizabeth Pincus, “Truman Capote: The Gossip, The Dirt”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 7:
"Recognising and knowing how to understand visual imagery in relation to a narrative in picture books is primarily a matter of immersion in books within a specific culture."
— 2016, David Waugh, Sally Neaum, Rosemary Waugh, Children's Literature in Primary Schools, page 80:
"She left the immersion on all the time, while I had been reared under pain of death to turn it off as soon as the bathwater was heated."
— 2020, Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing But Blue Sky, Penguin, →ISBN:
"Note that every embedding is an immersion, but the converse is not true. For an immersion to be an embedding, it must be one-to-one and the inverse must be continuous."
— 2006, William F. Basener, Topology and Its Applications, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 82:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Language ____ programs require students to speak only the target language all day.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The school offers a language ____ program where all the classes are taught entirely in French.