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Drowning vs Immersion - What's the difference?

drowning | immersion |

As nouns the difference between drowning and immersion

is that drowning is an instance of a person or animal drowning while immersion is the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.

As a verb drowning

is .

drowning

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (wikipedia drowning) (en noun)
  • An instance of a person or animal drowning.
    • It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year.

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    immersion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

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