Synonyms:
ingress, immersion
Meaning: (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
Synonyms:
submergence, submerging, submersion, immersion
Meaning: sinking until covered completely with water
Usage examples
The shock of icy immersion reanimated Lanyard.
Having explained my object, he expressed himself indebted to me, and said that he felt greatly better from the immersion, afterward conversing sensibly upon our situation.
While in any other great city the vagabond child is a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the surface, is almost intact on the interior.