Absorption vs Immersion - What's the difference?
absorption | immersion |
The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,
# (obsolete) engulfing; swallowing up, as of bodies or land.
# assimilate; incorporation.
# (chemistry, physics) the imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action, of radiant energy; the process of being neutrons being absorbed by the nucleus; interception.
# (physiology) in living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs; taking in by various means, such as by osmosis.
Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind.
Mental assimilation.
(electrical engineering) The retaining of electrical energy for a short time after it has been introduced to the dielectric.
The taking on of by a shipping company of special charges by another without price increase.
The natural lessening of radio waves due to atmospheric interference.
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the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism
(British, Ireland, informal) an immersion heater
(mathematics) a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding
(astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; opposed to emersion.
As nouns the difference between absorption and immersion
is that absorption is the act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as while immersion is the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.absorption
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Noun
(en noun)- ''the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger
- the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool
- the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
- absorption in some employment
