1) Absorbefacient 2) Absorptive 3) Assimilating 4) Assimilative 5) Assimilatory 6) Hygroscopic 7) Leaky 8) Like paper towels 9) Permeable 10) Sorbefacient 11) Spongelike 12) Spongy 13) Tending to absorb 14) Thirsty
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• (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. • (n.) Anything which absorbs. • (n.) 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. • (n.) The vessels by which ...
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• A material that extracts one or more substances from a fluid (gas or liquid) medium on contact, and which changes physically or chemically or both in the process. E.g., solid absorbent: calcium chloride; liquid absorbents: solutions of lithium chloride, lithium bromide, and ethylene glycols. ...
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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.
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1. Anything which absorbs. 'The ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat.' (Darwin) ... 2. <medicine> 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. ... 3. <physiology>...
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(ab-sor´bәnt) able to take in, or suck up and incorporate. a tissue structure involved in absorption. a substance that absorbs or promotes absorption.
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also called absorption oil. See absorption oil.
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Ab·sorb'ent adjective [ Latin
absorbens , present participle of
absorbere .] Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
Absorbent ground (Paint.) ,
a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is impar...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ab-sōr′bent Definitions: 1. Having the power to absorb, soak up, or incorporate a gas, liquid, light rays, or heat. 2. Any substance possessing such power. 3. Material used to remove carbon dioxide from circuits in which rebreathing occurs, anesthesia circuit and basal metabolism equipment. Synonyms: absorptive,...
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An herb or substance that promotes absorption, soaks up liquid, or acts as a sponge.
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a substance, a solid or a liquid, that allows another substance, a liquid or a gas, to permeate it
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[adj] - having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up (liquids)
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absorbent 1. Any substance which absorbs fluids through its sensible or insensible porosity; applied in a special sense in medicine to such substances as chalk, magnesia, which absorb the acidity of the stomach.2. Capable of absorbing moisture, light rays, etc.; a thing or substance that absorbs.
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absorptive adjective having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.); `as absorbent as a sponge`
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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.
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capable of absorbing heat, light, moisture, etc.; tending to absorb.
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