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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əbˈsɔː.bn̩t/, /əbˈzɔː.bn̩t/
• (米国発音) IPA: /æbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t/, /æbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t/, /əbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t/, /əbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t/

形容詞

absorbent (comparative more absorbent, superlative most absorbent)

1. Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive. [First attested in the early 18 century.]

   Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.

派生語

名詞

absorbent (plural absorbents)

1. Anything which absorbs. [First attested in the early 18 century.]
   • 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, page 225, Forgotten Books:

     In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year […] is low.

2. (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. [First attested in the mid 18 century.]
3. (medicine) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
4. (physical chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.

派生した語

• → Polish: absorbent
• → Norwegian Bokmål: absorbent

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動詞

absorbent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of absorbeō