submersion
/səbˈməːʃn
/ /səbˈməːʒn/noun [mass noun]
The action or state of submerging or being submerged: five small islands threatened by submersion...
- The analogy between cerebral protection with deep hypothermia, and cold water submersion, now becomes obvious.
- There have been extraordinary examples of survival after long periods of submersion in ice cold water.
- If such a seizure occurs while a person is swimming, the average body density may become higher than the density of the water, causing rapid submersion.
Rhymes
- partition coefficient
- partitioner
- partition function
- partitionism
- partitionist
- partitionment
- Partition treaty
- partition wall
- partitive
- partitive genitive
- partitively
- partitivity
- partizan
- partless
- Partlet
- part load
- partly
- part-Maori
- part music
- partner
- partner in crime
- partnerless
- partners' desk
- partnership
- partnership desk