Definizione monolingua

absorbent

absorbent

1. third-person plural present indicative of absorber
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of absorber

absorbent (plural absorbents)

1. Anything which absorbs.
   • 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, 1972, Forgotten Books, page 225,

     In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year […] is low.

2. (medicine) 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. (physiology, pluralized) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

absorbent (comparative more absorbent, superlative most absorbent)

1. absorbing liquids; swallowing; absorptive.

   Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.

Definizione dizionario absorbent

	assorbente
	absorbing
	Capable of absorbing.

Altri significati:

anything which absorbs

absorbing liquids; swallowing; absorptive.

(physiology, pluralized) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

(medicine) 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.

A substance that is capable of absorbing.

Anything which absorbs.