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Definition of Absorbed

1. Adjective. Giving or marked by complete attention to. "Wrapped in thought"

2. Adjective. Retained without reflection. "The absorbed light intensity"

Definition of Absorbed

1. Adjective. fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed ¹

2. Adjective. (context: physics of light) taken in by a body without reflection ¹

3. Adjective. (context: of a fluid) taken by through the pores of a surface ¹

4. Verb. (past of absorb) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Absorbed

1. absorb [v] - See also: absorb

Lexicographical Neighbors of Absorbed

absorbability absorbable absorbable gelatin film absorbable gelatin sponge absorbable surgical suture absorbably absorbance absorbances absorbancies absorbancy

absorbancy index absorbant absorbants absorbate absorbates absorbed (current term) absorbed dose absorbed doses absorbedly absorbedness

absorbefacient absorbencies absorbency absorbent absorbent cotton absorbent material absorbent paper absorbent papers absorbent points absorbent system

Literary usage of Absorbed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"highest number and ending with the lowest, and also inscribing opposite these figures those showing the oxygen absorbed in each corresponding experiment, ..."

2. Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1803)
"X. Appendix to Mr. William Henry's Paper, on the Quantity of Gases absorbed by Water, at different Temperatures, and under different Pressures. ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Water and most neutral salts are absorbed very quickly. Iron is the only one of the salts of the heavy metals to be absorbed. Sodium chlorid is easily ..."

4. The Anatomic Histological Process of Bright's Disease and Their Relation to by William Heiskell Deaderick, Horst Oertel, Charles Gilmore Kerley, Michael Grossmann (1909)
"retards the absorption of quinine during the first six hours after administration, the quantity absorbed during the entire twenty-four hours after ..."

5. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... and became the founder of that branch of the family which in time absorbed the Milton estate ..."

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