Meaning | A material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance. |
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Synonym | absorbent |
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Narrower | absorbent cotton | cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax |
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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 |
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Spanish | absorbente, material absorbente |
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Catalan | absorbent |
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