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  • absorbate: that substance absorbed by an absorbent
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • absorbed: quantity of a polluting substance, drug or radiation taken up by a person, a community or the environment
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • absorbed: the quotient d epsilon/dm,where d epsilon is the energy imparted to matter by ionising radiation in a suitably small element of volume of mass dm
    Category: Physics

  • absorbed: the rate or averaged rate of flow of energy of vibration entering the human body
    Category: Environment

  • absorbed: power absorbed at the drive shaft of the pump at a given instant or under given load conditions
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • absorbed: the rate of flow of energy of vibration entering the human body
    Category: Medicine

  • absorbed: the voltage which is absorbed by a transductor in a circuit
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorbed: the increment of absorbed dose dD during a suitably small interval of time dt divided by that interval of time
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • absorbed: the maximum absorbed dose within a 30 cm diameter sphere centred at this point and consisting of material equivalent to soft tissue with a density of 1 g cm-3
    Category: Medicine

  • absorbed: absorbed dose of radiation or corpuscular emission is the energy imparted to matter by ionizing particles,par unit mass of the irradiated material at the place of interest.
    Category: Physics

  • absorbency: the ability of a paper or board to take up and retain a liquid with which it is in contact.Either the degree of absorbency or the rate of absorbency may be measured by standard methods of test
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • absorbent: a substance which has the ability of extracting some substances from a liquid or gaseous medium with which it is in contact
    Category: Physics

  • absorbent: in the selection of an absorbent for scrubbing a gas, the usual object is to find a liquid which has the capacity to absorbe a large quantity of the solute.
    Category: Environment

  • absorber: that part of an absorption machine in which the refrigerant vatour is absorbed
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • absorber: The part of a solar collector which converts the incident solar radiation into heat and from which the heat is removed by the transfer fluid.If an absorbing liquid is used then this may constitute both the absorber and the heat transfer fluid.
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorber: a material that readily absorbs photons to generate charge carriers(free electrons or holes)
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • ABSORBER: matter which absorbs atomic rays and particles. A sheet or other body of material placed between a source of radiation and a detector for purposes such as: determining the nature or the energy of the radiation; reducing the intensity of the radiation at the detector; as a shielding; or giving the radiation some desired characteristic, as by preferential transmission of one component of the radiation
    Category: Physics

  • ABSORBER: a substance that removes energy from any type of radiation
    Category: Medicine

  • absorbing: a state in a stochastic process which,once reached,cannot be quitted
    Category: Mathematics

  • absorbing: the device,movable along the mains lead of an energised appliance in order to assess the degree of interference which may be produced by this appliance at a given frequency
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorbing: The absorber plate is a part of a flat plate collector, generally of steel, copper or aluminium, whose black-painted surface converts sunlight to heat
    Category: The cosmos

  • absorbing: the volume of liquid absorbed by a hydraulic motor during one revolution
    Category: Physics

  • absorbing: a generalisation from one dimension of the idea of an absorbing barrier
    Category: Mathematics

  • absorbing: certain additive or random walk processes represent the motion of a particle in one or more dimensions; in certain cases limitations may be imposed on the motion in the form of barriers which, once reached, 'absorb' the particle and end the motion
    Category: Mathematics

  • absorbing: Surface of an absorber(paint,selective coating).(DF1)Sometimes also used as a synonym for the absorber itself.(DF2)
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorbing: the volume rate of flow absorbed by a hydraulic motor
    Category: Physics

  • absorptance: the ratio of the absorbed radiant or luminous flux to the incident flux
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorptance: ratio of the radiant energy flow rate absorbed by a surface to the energy flow rate received
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • absorptiometer: an instrument for measuring the reduction of pressure in a gas as it is absorbed by a liquid to determine the absorption rate
    Category: Physics

  • absorption: the amount of preservative or other chemical absorbed by timber,generally expressed in lb/ft3 or kg/m3,of treated volume or,particularly in diffusion treatments,as a percentage of the oven-dry weight of the piece
    Category: The chemical industry

  • absorption: an atomic or nuclear interaction in which an incident particle disappears as a free particle even when one or more of the same or different particles are subsequently emitted
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • absorption: in radio wave propagation,the attenuation of a radio wave due to its energy being dissipated,i.e.converted into another form such as heat
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorption: the phenomenon in which incident radiation transfers some or all of its energy to the matter which it traverses
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • absorption: the upward passage,by osmosis,of inorganic salts in solution from soil water to the root hairs
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • absorption: taking up, assimilation, or incorporation; as, the absorption of gases in liquids, as distinguished from adsorption
    Category: Mining

  • absorption: the irreversible conversion of the energy of an electromagnetic wave into another form of energy as a result of its interaction with matter
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorptive: the property of absorbing radiation possessed by all materials to varying extents
    Category: Chemistry

  • absorptive: a mathematical expression of the capacity of a substance to absorb another substance or form of energy
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • absorptive: outlet channel in which contour furrows,ridges,ditches,or other such means are used to collect and hold runoffuntil it is absorbed by the soil
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • absorptive: flooring used to minimise reflection effects
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • absorptive: ratio of pore volume to bulk volume of paper or board
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • absorptive: a mat of microglass fibres which is used for fixing the sulphuric acid in lead accumulators
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorptive: a traffic noise barrier incorporating elements on the traffic face that absorb a significant proportion of incident sound and hence reduce reflected sound which could contribute to overall noise levels in the vicinity
    Category: Environment

  • absorptivity: the internal absorptance of a layer of the material such that the path of the radiation is of unit length,and under conditions in which the boundary of the material has no influence
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • accessorie: on aircraft engines,those components attached to the engine which are not vital to the basic operation but which enhance versatility of the propulsion system
    Category: Transport

  • accessories: on aircraft engines,those components attached to the engine which are not vital to the basic operation but which enhance versatility of the propulsion system
    Category: Transport

  • accessorium: the decision on the main issue applies to accessory matters
    Category: Law

  • accessory: an article which whilst not being a device is intended specifically by its manufacturer to be used together with a device to enable it to be used in accordance with the use of the device intended by the manufacturer of the device
    Category: Medicine

  • accessory: any associated item which does not form part of a basic component
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • adsorbate: that substance adsorbed by an adsorbent
    Category: Mechanical engineering



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