absorber

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absorber

  • /əbˈsɔɹ.bɚ/ US
  • /əbˈzɔɹ.bɚ/ US
  • /æbˈsɔɹ.bɚ/ US
  • /æbˈzɔɹ.bɚ/ US

noun absorbers

  1. Something that absorbs. […] these Symptoms are only curred, by such Medicines as correct the Acidity and Acrimony of the Blood, viz. When it most partakes of Acrimony by sweet diaphoretick Decoctions, or some sort of Acids, which dull and take off their corroding Edges, or when they are more Acid, by volatile Salts that ca
  2. A device which causes gas or vapor to be absorbed by a liquid.
  3. A material that absorbs neutrons in a reactor.
  4. A person who absorbs. Old Lady Dacier’s bluntness in speaking of her grandson would have shocked Lady Wathin as much as it astonished, had she been less of an ardent absorber of aristocratic manners.
  5. A set that, under suitable transformations, can contain any set from a given class within a topological space. By proposition 6.5.4, X is a skeletoid and hence an absorber by theorem 6.5.1.

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noun one who, or that which, absorbs

Portuguêsabsorvedor
Françaisabsorbant
DeutschAbsorber, Augsauger
Русскийабсо́рбер absórber, абсорбе́нт absorbént, поглоти́тель poglotítelʹ

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@misc{absorber_2026,
  title = {absorber},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/absorber},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}