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Definition of Absorptive

1. Adjective. Having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.). "As absorbent as a sponge"

Definition of Absorptive

1. a. Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.

Definition of Absorptive

1. Adjective. Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Absorptive

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Absorptive

1. 1. Anything which absorbs. "The ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat." (Darwin) 2. Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. G, iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts. 3. The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Absorptive

Literary usage of Absorptive

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

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver (1902)
"1 Seedling with the long absorptive cells of ite root ("root-hairs") with sand attached. * The same seedling; the saint removed by washing. ..."

2. A Text-book of Physics by William Watson (1903)
"since its absorptive power is unity. Hence in unit time the body A will ... Thus Ea IE In other words, the emissive power is equal to the absorptive power. ..."

3. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1906)
"absorptive Power and Resistance to Freezing.—The amount of moisture any stone ... As a rule, crystalline rocks are not strongly absorptive, the individual ..."

4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"absorptive air roots. ... A cross section of an aerial absorptive root of a tropical epiphytic orchid, ..."

5. A Treatise on Masonry Construction by Ira Osborn Baker (1889)
"absorptive Power. The ratio of absorption depends largely on the density,—a dense stone ... To determine the absorptive power, dry the specimen and weigh it ..."

6. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1879)
"Restoration of absorptive Power. By boiling soils with strong ... Van Bemmelen finds that soils thus treated lose most of their absorptive power. ..."

7. The Theory of Heat by Thomas Preston (1904)
"Emissive and absorptive ... If radiations of a given wave-length A fall on the surface of any body, then the absorptive power of the body for that ..."

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