Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for absorption. Search instead for absorptionsapparat.
Definitions

absorption

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




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Combining these two, Caballero infers that shift from a safety premium to an absorption premium explains about 0.75 percentage points of the roughly 2.5 percentage point rise in yields since 2015.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

But today’s 40% offers real income, alongside real shock absorption to shaky equity markets.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

Earlier technologies typically required light to hit the material at very steep angles to achieve similar effects, reducing both absorption and radiation efficiency compared with normal incidence.

From Science Daily Jul. 7, 2026

Weight-loss surgery and some medicines used for diabetes or acid reflux can also reduce absorption.

From Science Daily Jun. 25, 2026

Even before he was near enough to make out the expression on their faces, Winston could see absorption in every line of their bodies.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

Despite these absorptions Mrs. Gwynn managed to find leisure to read aloud to Judge Roscoe his favorite old novels, and essays, and dull antiquated histories.

From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree




Vocabulary lists containing absorption


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training