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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

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

  • adsorbate: a substance which is adsorbed
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • adsorbed: water held by physico-chemical forces in a solid and having physical properties substantially different from ordinary water at the same temperature and pressure; in particular, its vapour pressure (or chemical potential) is less than that of pure bulk water at the same temperature
    Category: Physics

  • adsorbent: a substance which has the ability of taking up molecules of gases or liquids by surface adhesion
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • adsorbent: a substance or material which adsorbs
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • radioallergosorbent: a radioimmunoassay test to detect JgE-bound allergens responsible for tissue hypersensitivity; the allergen is bound to insoluble material, and the patient`s serum is reacted with this conjugate
    Category: Medicine

  • sorb: fruit of Sorbus domestica and Sorbus aria
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • sorbate: that substance which is absorbed by or adsorbed on a sorbent
    Category: Chemistry

  • sorbent: a substance possessing the characteristic ability of absorption or adsorption
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • sorbet: frozen mixture of syrups flavoured by fruit pulp or fruit extracts
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • sorbite: may be described as a late stage in the tempering of martensite when the carbide particles have grown so that the structure has a distinctly granular appearance.
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • sorbitic: cast iron with matrix constituted of sorbite
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • sorbitol: hexahydric alcohol extracted from sorb apples,used under regulations in Germany to sweeten sparkling wines for diabetics
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • unabsorb: a field strength which would exist at a receiving point in the absence of absorption between the transmitting and receiving aerials
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • unabsorbed: a field strength which would exist at a receiving point in the absence of absorption between the transmitting and receiving aerials
    Category: News-systems and communications



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