(obsolete) The action of absorbing. / The quality of being absorbent. / (physics) The ratio of the absorbance or optical density of a substance to that of a similar body of pure solvent.

(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 absorbance

plural of absorber

plural of absorbability

plural of absorbency