| NOUN | substance | absorbent material, absorbent | a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance |
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| Meaning | A material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance. | |
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| Synonym | absorbent | |
| Narrower | absorbent cotton | cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax |
| absorber | (physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation | |
| sponge | A porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used | |
| Broader | sorbent, sorbent material | A material that sorbs another substance |
| Spanish | absorbente, material absorbente | |
| Catalan | absorbent | |
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