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Immersion vs Dipping - What's the difference?

immersion | dipping |

As nouns the difference between immersion and dipping

is that immersion is the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed while dipping is an act or process of immersing.

As a verb dipping is

present participle of lang=en.

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.

    • Anagrams

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    dipping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or process of immersing.
  • The act of inclining downward.
  • The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
  • The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
  • (US) The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.