absorbency
English
Alternative forms
- (physics) absorbancy
Etymology
absorbance + -y
Pronunciation
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Noun
absorbency (countable and uncountable, plural absorbencies)
- (obsolete) The action of absorbing.
- The quality of being absorbent. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
- (physics) The ratio of the absorbance or optical density of a substance to that of a similar body of pure solvent.[1]
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Synonyms
Translations
quality of being absorbent
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absorbency”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.
- “absorbency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.