Submersion

[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.

The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: sinking until covered completely with water
  Synonyms: submergence, submerging, immersion

Meaning #2: the act of wetting something by submerging it
  Synonyms: immersion, ducking, dousing

Submersion may refer to:

• Being underwater or going underwater: see scuba diving or submarine or wikt:submerge.
• Submersion (mathematics), in the mathematical sense.
• Submersion (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of the television series Stargate Atlantis.
• Submersion (Coastal Management), is the sustainable cyclic portion of foreshore erosion where coastal sediments move from the visible portion of a beach to the submerged nearshore region, and later are able to return to the original visible portion of the beach.

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See also

• Immersion

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