Definition of Immersed

1. p. p. & a. Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid.

Definition of Immersed

1. Verb. (past of immerse) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immersed

1. immerse [v] - See also: immerse

Medical Definition of Immersed

1. Growing under water. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immersed

immensity
immensive
immensurability
immensurable
immensurate
immerge
immerged
immerges
immerging
immerit
immerited
immeritorious
immeritous
immersable
immerse
immersed (current term)
immerses
immersible
immersing
immersion
immersion bath
immersion blender
immersion blenders
immersion foot
immersion heater
immersion lens
immersion liquid
immersion medium
immersion objective
immersion of a lens

Literary usage of Immersed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1844)
"But before the body was immersed, the same pressure supported a quantity of the fluid which occupied the same space and was therefore of the same magnitude ..."

2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1867)
"He will not allow that such expressions as " immersed in ignorance ... l immersed in ignorance' directly and prosaically declares that those spoken of are ..."

3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1867)
"He will not allow that such expressions as " immersed in ignorance," ... immersed in ignorance' directly and prosaically declares that those spoken of are ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1866)
"Interim Report of the Committee on the Resistance of Water to Floating and immersed Bodies. By WJ MACQUORN RANKINE,C..E., LL. ..."

5. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER XXXIX That man must not be immersed in business " MY Son, always commit thy cause to Me; I will dispose it aright in due time. ..."

6. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1906)
"Therefore, in Antarctic sea-water with an average density of 1-025 grammes per cubic centimetre, glacier ioe would float with four parts immersed and one ..."

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