submergence
noun1
The act of submerging or the state of being submerged; submersion.
- The covering up of a complex of apartments on the north-east, and the simultaneous submergence of many floor deposits, mean that Middle Minoan III., like the two preceding periods, was closed by a general catastrophe.1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 84:
- Derived terms
- deep-submergence vehicle, resubmergence