submersion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin summersio, summersionem.

Noun

submersion (countable and uncountable, plural submersions)

1. The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion
2. (mathematics) A differentiable map whose differential is everywhere surjective.

Related terms

• submerse
• submersible
• submerge
• submersive

Translations

Translations

• Galician: submersión (gl) f
• German: Submersion (de) f
• Irish: folcadh m, iombhá m
• Italian: immersione (it), sommersione
• Portuguese: submersão f
• Spanish: sumersión (es), sumergimiento
• Telugu: మునక (te) (munaka)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin summersiōnem.

Noun

submersion f (plural submersions)

1. submersion

Related terms

• submersible
• submerger

Further reading

• “submersion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.