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Princeton's WordNet

  1. submergence, submerging, submersion, immersionnoun

    sinking until covered completely with water

  2. submersion, immersion, ducking, dousingnoun

    the act of wetting something by submerging it

Wiktionary

  1. submersionnoun

    The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion

  2. submersionnoun

    See submersion (mathematics)

  3. Etymology: Latin submersio (submergere)

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Submersionnoun

    The act of drowning; state of being drowned.

    Etymology: submersion, Fr. from submersus, Latin.

    The great Atlantick island is mentioned in Plato’s Timæus, almost contiguous to the western parts of Spain and Africa, yet wholly swallowed up by that ocean: which if true, might afford a passage from Africa to America by land before that submersion. Matthew Hale, Origination of Mankind.

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  1. submersion

    In the field of mathematics specifically differential geometry and topology, a submersion is a differentiable function between differentiable manifolds whose differential is everywhere surjective. Basically, it is a smooth map that is 'locally onto' meaning around every point, the image includes an open set in the target manifold. Submersions play a crucial role in the understanding of the differentiable structure of smooth manifolds.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Submersionnoun

    the act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning

  2. Submersionnoun

    the state of being put under water or other fluid, or of being overflowed or drowned

  3. Etymology: [L. submersio: cf. F. submersion.]

Wikidata

  1. Submersion

    The team discovers an Ancient drilling station deep beneath the surface of the ocean, only to find that a Wraith queen is still alive there.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of submersion in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of submersion in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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