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absorption

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




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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

The signal contained carbon monoxide absorption lines arranged in a barcode-like sequence, a feature commonly expected in the atmospheres of giant planets.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

Others develop autoimmune gastritis, in which the immune system damages stomach cells involved in producing acid and intrinsic factor, the protein needed for vitamin B12 absorption.

From Science Daily Jun. 25, 2026

That news, which broke in January 1939, launched physicists upon flights of learned speculation about the enormous energy released when the uranium nucleus split following its absorption of a stray neutron.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine and other “re-photographers” delighted and outraged viewers with their canny absorptions of other artists’ work.

From New York Times Oct. 7, 2010

Assuming the absorption effected by air, at a pressure of one atmosphere, to be unity, the following are the absorptions effected by a series of vapours at a pressure of 1/60th of an atmosphere :—

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall




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