absorption

noun

/əbˈzɔːpʃn/

/əbˈzɔːrpʃn/

[uncountable]

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the process of a liquid, gas or other substance being taken in
- Vitamin D is necessary to aid the absorption of calcium from food.
absorption (of somebody/something) (into something) the process of a smaller group, country, etc. becoming part of a larger group or country
- the absorption of immigrants into the host country
absorption (in something) the fact of somebody being very interested in something so that it takes all their attention
- His work suffered because of his total absorption in sport.
Topics Feelingsc2

Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘the swallowing up of something’): from Latin absorptio(n-), from absorbere ‘swallow up’, from ab- ‘from’ + sorbere ‘suck in’.

单词	absorption
释义	absorption noun /əbˈzɔːpʃn/ /əbˈzɔːrpʃn/ [uncountable] jump to other results the process of a liquid, gas or other substance being taken in Vitamin D is necessary to aid the absorption of calcium from food. absorption (of somebody/something) (into something) the process of a smaller group, country, etc. becoming part of a larger group or country the absorption of immigrants into the host country absorption (in something) the fact of somebody being very interested in something so that it takes all their attention His work suffered because of his total absorption in sport. Topics Feelingsc2 Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘the swallowing up of something’): from Latin absorptio(n-), from absorbere ‘swallow up’, from ab- ‘from’ + sorbere ‘suck in’.
随便看	expel expend expendable expenditure expense expense account expense-account expensive expensively experience experience_1 experienced experience points experience-points experiential experiment experiment_1 experiment_2 experimental experimentally experimentation experimenter expert expert_2 expertise