A device which causes gas or vapor to be absorbed by a liquid. / (nuclear physics) A material that absorbs neutrons in a reactor. / A person who absorbs.

A material that can be absorbed.

The state or quality of being absorbable.

present participle of absorb

Engrossing, that sustains someone's interest. / (statistics, of a state) Allowing a process to enter it, but not to leave it.

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.

simple past tense and past participle of absorb

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

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absorb

Alternative form of absorbance