The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite.
A form of foreign-languageteaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
Origin
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersio.
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