immergence

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒəns

Noun

immergence (plural immergences)

1. (uncommon) Immersion.
   • 2005, Víctor Sánchez-Cordero, Rodrigo A. Medellín, Contribuciones mastozoológicas en homenaje a Bernardo Villa, UNAM, →ISBN, page 41:

     For a given species, the length of the active season (emergence from hibernation to immergence in hibernation) varies little among geographic populations, but the timing of emergence and immergence may vary widely.

   • 2012, S. Vaitkus, How is Society Possible?: Intersubjectivity and the Fiduciary Attitude as Problems of the Social Group in Mead, Gurwitsch, and Schutz, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 52:

     Moreover, it requires a thorough-going immergence within it. However, in this immergence, the horizon of milieux, ungoverned and impertinent to this contexture, is always possibly visible. Freedom in this contexture consists in the possibility to ...

   • 2014, Kenneth B. Armitage, Marmot Biology: Sociality, Individual Fitness, and Population Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 101:

     One possible relationship is that body mass or loss of mass during the hibernation period (the difference between immergence mass and emergence mass) is related to the length of the hibernation period.