Immersion can refer to:
- Baptism by immersion
- Immersion lithography or immersion microscopy, optical techniques in which liquid is between the objective and image plane in order to raise numerical aperture.
- Language immersion
- Immersion (mathematics), a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding
- Telepresence, also called teleimmersion
- Immersion (HCI)
- Immersion (virtual reality)
- Immersion Corporation, a haptic technology developer
- Immersion heater, a kind of water heater
- Immersion journalism, a style of journalism
- Immersion, Pendulum's 3rd album
- Immersion in creative work: "There are certain kinds of work that require immersion into the task before progress can begin. In this category I include jobs like writing, research, analysis, invention, and programming. The immersion time is required to overcome a kind of mental inertia. ... When highly immersive tasks are interrupted, a second immersion period is required to get going again. There may also be a frustration component if interruption is frequent." Slack: Getting Past Burnout by Tom DeMarco
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