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Webster 1913 Edition


Submersion

Sub-mer′sion

,
Noun.
[L.
submersio
: cf. F.
submersion
.]
1.
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.
The state of being put under water or other fluid, or of being overflowed or drowned.

Webster 1828 Edition


Submersion

SUBMER'SION

,
Noun.
[L. submersus.]
1.
The act of putting under water or causing to be overflowed; as the submersion of an isle or tract of land.
2.
The act of plunging under water; the act of drowning.

Definition 2024


submersion

submersion

English

Noun

submersion (plural submersions)

  1. The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion
  2. (mathematics) A differentiable map whose differential is everywhere surjective.

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin summersio, summersionem.

Noun

submersion f (plural submersions)

  1. submersion

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