absorbant

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Definition of absorbant in English English dictionary

absorbent
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
absorbent
absorbing liquids; swallowing; absorptive

Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.

absorbent
{n} a vessel or substance which absorbs
absorbent
{a} a sucking up, drying up, imbibing
Absorbent
Substance with the ability to take up or absorb another substance
Absorbent
a material which extracts one or more substances form a liquid or gaseous medium which it contacts and charges physically or chemically, or both (e g soled absorbent: Calcium chloride, liquid absorbent: solutions of lithium chloride, lithium bromide, and ethylene glycols)
Absorbent
A substance which has the capacity to adsorb
Absorbent
a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance
Absorbent
A substance that absorbs another substance
Absorbent
having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up (liquids); "as absorbent as a sponge"
Absorbent
The substrate into which a substance is absorbed
Absorbent
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
Absorbent
A material, usually a porous solid, which takes another material into its interior When rain soaks into soil, the soil is an absorbent
Absorbent
Substance which has the ability to take up or absorb another substance
Absorbent
In paper, the property which causes it to take up liquids or vapors in contact with it In optics, the partial suppression of light through a transparent or translucent material
Absorbent
Material on which absorption will occur
absorbent
having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up (liquids); "as absorbent as a sponge
absorbent
The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants
absorbent
Anything which absorbs
absorbent
iodine which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts
absorbent
also a substance e
absorbent
Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc
absorbent
Absorbent material soaks up liquid easily. The towels are highly absorbent. material that is absorbent is able to take in liquids easily
absorbent
Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive
absorbent
{s} able to soak up; able to take in
absorbant

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    Etymology

    (adjective.) 1718. Latin absorbent-, absorbens, present participle of absorbEre.
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