noun
definition
The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion
definition
A differentiable map whose differential is everywhere surjective.
Examples of submersion in a Sentence
Lung problems can develop 12 or more hours after submersion.
Both statistically and experimentally we find that a damp soil favours its life and development, while prolonged submersion and drought kill it.
Even if we allow for the difficulty of representing complete submersion in art, it is nevertheless clear that it was not insisted on; nor were the earliest fonts, to judge from the ruins of them, large and deep enough for such an usage.
Near-drowning is the term for survival after suffocation caused by submersion in water or other fluid.
Within three minutes of submersion, most people are unconscious, and within five minutes the brain begins to suffer from lack of oxygen.
Hypothermia from submersion in very cold water requires special handling to protect the heart.
Early rescue of near-drowning victims (within five minutes of submersion) and prompt CPR (within less than ten minutes of submersion) seem to be the best guarantees of a complete recovery.
Grease collection, water submersion and surface material determines how well and how fast you can clean the griddle.
The cable must not be overstrained in the process of submersion, and must be paid out at the proper rate to give the requisite slack.
Many remedies for this disease have been suggested, including total submersion of the vineyards, the use of carbon bisulphide for spraying, and of copper salts, but there appears to be little doubt that a really serious epidemic can only be dealt with by systematic destruction of the vines, followed by replanting with resistant varieties.
In the surrounding country there are important vineyards, which are preserved from disease by periodical submersion.
The earliest literary notices of baptism are far from conclusive in favour of submersion, and are often to be regarded as merely rhetorical.
Lyons, A Report on the Island and Temples of Philae (Cairo, 1896), with numerous plans and photographs; a seco!.d report, A Report on the Temples of Philae (1908), deals with the condition of the ruins as affected by the immersions occasioned by the filling of the Assuan dam; Baedeker's Egypt; and on the effects of the submersion, &c., reports in Annales du service des antiquite's, vols.