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Immersion vs Submersion - What's the difference?

immersion | submersion |

In mathematics terms the difference between immersion and submersion

is that immersion is a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding while submersion is a differentiable map whose differential is everywhere surjective.

As nouns the difference between immersion and submersion

is that immersion is the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed while submersion is the act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion.

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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    submersion

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia submersion) (en noun)
  • The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion
  • (mathematics) A differentiable map whose differential is everywhere surjective.