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DictionaryabsorptionTaking in
noun

absorption

ub-ZORP-shun/əbˈzɔːrpʃn/

The taking of something into a body or substance.

The sponge’s absorption of water darkens its lower half.

A porous sponge draws blue-tinted water upward from a shallow glass dish, the lower sponge visibly saturated and upper section still dry; a close clear view of liquid entering material, no arrows or words.
Etymology
abLatinaway, off
+sorptLatinsuck in
+ionLatinaction or process

The “away” and “suck in” pieces become a process noun meaning “swallowing up.” The later sense of disappearance through assimilation connects that image to something being taken into another substance or system.

In context

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the Benfield process is a gas sweetening process that generally uses amine solutions to remove impurities from natural gas the process involves the absorption of impurities by the solvent
𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 - 𝟏𝟖: 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 (𝐎𝐢𝐥 & 𝐆𝐚𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲)

More examples

  • Dark surfaces increase the absorption of sunlight.
  • The study measured nutrient absorption through the intestinal wall.
  • Her absorption in the novel made her miss the doorbell.

Forms

absorption

absorb verb — take in

Similar words

adsorption
Adsorption holds material on a surface; absorption takes it into the body or bulk of something.
assimilation
Assimilation integrates what has been taken in; absorption concerns the taking-in itself.