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immediacy
  • n  lack of an intervening or mediating agency
    the immediacy of television coverage
  • n  immediate intuitive awareness
  • n  the quickness of action or occurrence
    the immediacy of their response
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immediate allergy
  • n  an allergic reaction that becomes apparent in a sensitized person only minutes after contact
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immediate constituent
  • n  a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate
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immediate memory
  • n  what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it
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immediate payment
  • n  prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
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immediateness
  • n  the quickness of action or occurrence
  • n  lack of an intervening or mediating agency
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immersion
  • n  sinking until covered completely with water
  • n  (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
  • n  complete attention; intense mental effort
  • n  a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
  • n  the act of wetting something by submerging it
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immersion foot
  • n  resembling frostbite but without freezing; resulting from exposure to cold and wet
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immersion heater
  • n  a heating element that is immersed in the liquid that is to be heated (as in a hot-water tank)
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immigrant
  • n  a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
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immigrant class
  • n  recent immigrants who are lumped together as a class by their low socioeconomic status in spite of different cultural backgrounds
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immigration
  • n  migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
  • n  the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval
    the increased immigration strengthened the colony
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