Definitions for absorption

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absorption ab·sorp·tion

Spelling: [ab-sawrp-shuh n, -zawrp-]

IPA: /æbˈsɔrp ʃən, -ˈzɔrp-/

Absorption is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 920 anagrams from letters in absorption (abinooprst).

Definitions for absorption

noun

1. the act of absorbing.
2. the state or process of being absorbed.
3. assimilation; incorporation:
4. uptake of substances by a tissue, as of nutrients through the wall of the intestine.
5. a taking in or reception by molecular or chemical action, as of gases or liquids.
6. Physics. the removal of energy or particles from a beam by the medium through which the beam propagates.
7. complete attention or preoccupation; deep engrossment:

Origin of absorption

1590-1600; Latin absorptiōn- (stem of absorptiō), equivalent to absorpt(us), past participle of absorbēre to absorb + -iōn- -ion

Examples for absorption

Through the absorption of other lines it reached an extent of over 7,000 miles.

The progress of absorption is measured in decades, even centuries.

He wondered whether he would always be in this state of absorption.

Who knows but even thus is his absorption in God accomplished?

If his absorption was simply in his flying machine, she could wait.

There was not a trace of sentimental expression to this absorption.

The only hope of the Irish people is their absorption in America.

Here the first step is absorption and expansion, not precipitation.

Yet not so much a slave to it, she distinguished, as to Martin's absorption in its development.

It was his dissipation; there was something vaguely perilous in the absorption of it.