1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Immersion

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Immermann, Karl Leberecht
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 14
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​IMMERSION (Lat. immersio, dipping), the act of being plunged into a fluid, or being overwhelmed by anything; in astronomy, the disappearance of a heavenly body in the shadow of another, especially of a satellite in the shadow of its primary.

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