Absorption is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABSORPTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the process of absorbing
• the process by which one thing absorbs or is absorbed by another
• the state of being engrossed in something
• The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.
• An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
• In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.
• Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.
• (chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid
• (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium
• the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
• the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
• complete attention; intense mental effort
• the mental state of being preoccupied by something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the process of absorbing or of being absorbed — compare adsorption; interception of radiant energy or sound waves

Words related to ABSORPTION

absorptions15 absorptive17 absorptiveness21 absorptivities21 absorptivity22

Words that contain ABSORPTION

absorptions15 reabsorption16 malabsorption19 reabsorptions17 malabsorptions20

How to use ABSORPTION in a sentence

• Notwithstanding its hurry and bustle and apparent absorption in material things, it does not willingly let any beautiful thing perish.
• The tact and firmness of Talleyrand and Castlereagh had prevented the utter absorption of Saxony in the new military monarchy.
• He was all happy absorption in the face of that abyss.
• By smoking, each of the three active ingredients of tobacco is rendered capable of absorption.
• The peculiar disposition of the American to overlook mixed blood in a foreigner will simplify the gradual absorption of these Southern races.
• When I returned I found her still sitting in grave absorption before the studies that had taken us so by surprise.
• If I measure the intensity of the light at each operation, I shall find that it diminishes according to a certain law, which is of the same nature as the law of absorption.
• And consequently the absorption is proportionately greater at sea level that at 8,000 feet high.
• Under the designation of Averroism, there came into prominence the theories of Emanation and Absorption.
• As Arabism developed itself into a distinct scientific system, the theories of emanation and absorption were among its characteristic features.
• In that final absorption all remembrance of its past experiences is lost.
• Vegetable and animal systems, relative absorption of energy of, 78.
• The high ridge favours the production of stout leaves, and the absorption by the soil of sun-heat is to the Melon of the first importance.
• He snatched it off and devoured it greedily, and as it was animal matter, it really seemed as though the absorption of the substance afforded him some temporary relief.
• A stream of water of one quarter or one half inch diameter, supplies the waste of evaporation, absorption, fee.
• With these he worked cunningly and with complete absorption in his pursuit, neither stirring out of his own place nor communicating with any fellow being.
• But neither man blamed the girl for her selfish absorption.
• The power of drained soils to hold water, by absorption, is very great.
• He puts it on and wears it until it is taken up by absorption, and then it is time to put on another.
• If small, their larger neighbors extinguish them by absorption.
• A similar cause has preserved some of the low-lying Shan states from absorption, the heat in this case being the reason that the Chinese do not settle there.
• They have formed habits of working at half speed, with little concentration and no real absorption in the topic.
• It need hardly be said that in all effective oratory the speaker succeeds in proportion as he can make his hearers forget him in their absorption in the subject that he presents.
• The porous limestone of which the houses are built greatly favors absorption.
• Its great men remain to it, though the process of absorption was beginning which at last carried the more distinguished lights to Berlin.
• In the other great sect called the Tendai, and in the later sects, more especially in that of Nichiren, the same principle of absorption was followed.
• The appropriation of Hindu deities is usually the first step towards their absorption into the Hindu social structure.
• The Federal system was adapted to expansion, to the absorption of the whole continent.
• There is also a valuable outline of study for teachers taking up the chemical properties of food, and the physiological functions of digestion, absorption, nutrition, etc.

Similar words containing ABSORP without suffix tion

absorptive17 absorptance17 absorptions15 absorptances18 absorptivity22 reabsorption16 malabsorption19 nonabsorptive20 reabsorptions17 absorptiometer20 absorptiveness21 absorptivities21 malabsorptions20 absorptiometry23 absorptiometers21

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