Anything which absorbs. / (physiology, pluralized, now rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

(transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.

Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed. / Something that has been absorbed, taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.

simple past tense and past participle of absorb

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absorb

(physics) A logarithmic measure of the amount of light that is absorbed when passing through a substance; the capacity of a substance to absorb light of a given wavelength; optical density.

plural of absorbent

plural of absorbance

plural of absorber

plural of absorbability