Immersion may refer to:

The arts

* "Immersion", a 2012 story by

Aliette de Bodard Aliette de Bodard (born November 10, 1982) is a French-American speculative fiction writer. She has received accolades including the British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, Ignyte Award, Locus Award, and Nebula Award. Writing De Bodard published he ...

* ''Immersion'', a French comic book series by Léo Quievreux * ''Immersion'' (album), the third album by Australian group Pendulum * ''Immersion'' (film), a 2021 Chilean thriller film * ''Immersion'', a 2023 Japanese film directed by Takashi Shimizu * ''Immersion'' (series), a webseries which test the concepts of video games in real life, created by Rooster Teeth Productions * Immersion journalism, a style of journalism

Science and technology

Immersion lithography Immersion lithography is a technique used in semiconductor manufacturing to enhance the resolution and accuracy of the lithographic process. It involves using a liquid medium, typically water, between the lens and the wafer during exposure. By ...

or immersion microscopy, optical techniques in which liquid is between the objective and image plane in order to raise numerical aperture *

Immersion (mathematics) In mathematics, an immersion is a differentiable function between differentiable manifolds whose differential pushforward is everywhere injective. Explicitly, is an immersion if :D_pf : T_p M \to T_N\, is an injective function at every point ...

, a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding *

Immersion (virtual reality) In virtual reality (VR), immersion is the perception of being physically Presence (telepresence), present in a non-physical world. The perception is created by surrounding the user of the VR system in images, sound or other Stimulation, stimuli t ...

, the perception of being physically present in a non-physical world, created by using VR

Other uses

Immersion baptism Immersion baptism (also known as baptism by immersion or baptism by submersion) is a method of baptism that is distinguished from baptism by affusion (pouring) and by aspersion (sprinkling), sometimes without specifying whether the immersion is ...

, a type of baptism whereby the subject is immersed in water * Immersion Corporation, a haptic technology developer * Immersion heater, a kind of water heater * Immersion therapy, overcoming fears through confrontation *

Language immersion Language immersion, or simply immersion, is a technique used in Bilingual education, bilingual language education in which two languages are used for instruction in a variety of topics, including maths, science, or social studies. The languages ...

, a method of teaching a second language in which the target language is used for instruction {{disambiguation