Definition of Absorption

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Absorption

The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.

An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.

In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.

Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.

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Absorption Quotations

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Walter Lippmann

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
George P. Baker

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.
Wilfrid Laurier

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
Hugo Ball

Absorption Translations

absorption in Dutch is absorptie, opslorping
absorption in French is absorption
absorption in German is Absorption {f}, Aufsaugung {f}, Aufnahme {f}
absorption in Swedish is absorbering

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