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Definition of absorbant in English English dictionary
- absorbent
- Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts
- absorbent
- absorbing liquids; swallowing; absorptive
Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.
- absorbent
- {n} a vessel or substance which absorbs
- absorbent
- {a} a sucking up, drying up, imbibing
- Absorbent
- Substance with the ability to take up or absorb another substance
- Absorbent
- a material which extracts one or more substances form a liquid or gaseous medium which it contacts and charges physically or chemically, or both (e g soled absorbent: Calcium chloride, liquid absorbent: solutions of lithium chloride, lithium bromide, and ethylene glycols)
- Absorbent
- A substance which has the capacity to adsorb
- Absorbent
- a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance
- Absorbent
- A substance that absorbs another substance
- Absorbent
- having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up (liquids); "as absorbent as a sponge"
- Absorbent
- The substrate into which a substance is absorbed
- Absorbent
- A material that extracts one or more substances from a fluid (gas or liquid) medium on contact, and which changes physically and/or chemically in the process The less volatile of the two working fluids in an absorption cooling device
- Absorbent
- A material, usually a porous solid, which takes another material into its interior When rain soaks into soil, the soil is an absorbent
- Absorbent
- Substance which has the ability to take up or absorb another substance
- Absorbent
- In paper, the property which causes it to take up liquids or vapors in contact with it In optics, the partial suppression of light through a transparent or translucent material
- Absorbent
- Material on which absorption will occur
- absorbent
- having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up (liquids); "as absorbent as a sponge
- absorbent
- The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants
- absorbent
- Anything which absorbs
- absorbent
- iodine which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts
- absorbent
- also a substance e
- absorbent
- Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc
- absorbent
- Absorbent material soaks up liquid easily. The towels are highly absorbent. material that is absorbent is able to take in liquids easily
- absorbent
- Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive
- absorbent
- {s} able to soak up; able to take in
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(adjective.) 1718. Latin absorbent-, absorbens, present participle of absorbEre.Resimler
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