Immersion may refer to:

The arts

* "Immersion", a 2012 story by

Aliette de Bodard Aliette de Bodard is a French-American speculative fiction writer. Writing de Bodard published her first short story in 2006. In 2007, she was a winner of Writers of the Future, and in 2009 was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best ...

* ''Immersion'', a French comic book series by

Léo Quievreux Léo Quievreux (born 1971) is a French author and illustrator of comic books, and founder of publisher Éditions Gotoproductions. His moniker as a musician is Pik. Early life and education Quievreux was born in Mulhouse, France, Mulhouse in the ...

* ''Immersion'' (album), the third album by Australian group Pendulum * ''Immersion'' (film), a 2021 Chilean thriller film * Immersion (series), a webseries which test the concepts of video games in real life, created by Rooster Teeth Productions *

Immersion journalism Immersion journalism or immersionism is a style of journalism similar to gonzo journalism. In the style, journalists immerse themselves in a situation and with the people involved. The final product tends to focus on the experience, not the writ ...

, a style of journalism

Science and technology

Immersion lithography Immersion lithography is a photolithography resolution enhancement technique for manufacturing integrated circuits (ICs) that replaces the usual air gap between the final lens and the wafer surface with a liquid medium that has a refractive inde ...

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 (or pushforward) is everywhere injective. Explicitly, is an immersion if :D_pf : T_p M \to T_N\, is an injective function at every ...

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

Immersion (virtual reality) Immersion into virtual reality (VR) is a perception of being physically present in a non-physical world. The perception is created by surrounding the user of the VR system in images, sound or other stimuli that provide an engrossing total enviro ...

, 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 i ...

, 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 Immersion therapy is a psychological technique which allows a patient to overcome fears (phobias), but can be used for anxiety and panic disorders. First a fear-hierarchy is created: the patient is asked a series of questions to determine the lev ...

, overcoming fears through confrontation *

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

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