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Definition of Absorbing

1. Adjective. Capable of arousing and holding the attention. "A fascinating story"

Definition of Absorbing

1. a. Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit.

Definition of Absorbing

1. Adjective. Engrossing, that sustains someone's interest. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: statistics of a state) Allowing a process to enter it, but not to leave it. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of absorb) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Absorbing

1. absorb [v] - See also: absorb

Medical Definition of Absorbing

1. Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. Absorb"ing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Absorbing

Literary usage of Absorbing

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

1. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1914)
"Elliptical Polarization produced by absorbing Active Media. ... As we have seen, in absorbing media, one of these may be reduced in intensity more than the ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"Consequently the greater the absorbing placed with absorbing materials must be scien- power of the surfaces, the less will be the time of tifically chosen, ..."

3. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"SURFACE TEMPERATURES AND absorbing GASES. The radiation from a particle of water vapor, or any other substance in or of the atmosphere, clearly, ..."

4. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution by Thomas Paine (1856)
"... itself assumed to be, and of absorbing the rights of the a house over which it has neither election nor ..."

5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"Depletion of the heat-absorbing constituents of the atmosphere.— A fourth effect is assigned to a change in the constitution of the atmosphere affecting ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... gathered about him will therein have the opportunity, as they have the absorbing purpose, to carry to complete and perfect fruition his pregnant ideas. ..."

7. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"It is absolutely the real thing; a novel so fine, so sincere, so absorbing that it cannot be overpraised or oversold. Henry Sydnor Harrison's SAINT TERESA ..."

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