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absorption

[ab-sawrp-shuhn, -zawrp-] / æbˈsɔrp ʃən, -ˈzɔrp- /




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Each formulation was tested for several important properties, including compressive strength, split tensile strength, water absorption, and impact resistance.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Citi says margins could realistically be negative given fixed-cost absorption, high raw-material headwinds and worse-than-consensus volumes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“They promote absorption within the bowel so they slow down movement within the bowel but they also may stimulate the bowel to grow.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The shape of Venus's absorption spectrum adds another important clue.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Mai appears to understand the principle of absorption.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Organic growth was 10%, of which 4% was same clinic growth and 6% from clinic absorptions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

A record of fascinations is at risk of careening into self-indulgence, but “Affinities” is also a record of absorptions, both Dillon’s and those of the artists he loves.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023

These epithelia are active in the secretion and absorptions of molecules.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Their quirky absorptions in, say, physics, baseball stats or investment strategies add enormously to human advancement.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2012

While their minds are yet alive with facts and figures, time always effaces concrete absorptions.

From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by William Elmer Bachman




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