Dunking vs Immersion - What's the difference?
dunking | immersion |
The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool.
(basketball) Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.
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.