Absorber

//əbˈsɔɹ.bɚ// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1
Something that absorbs.
"[…] these Symptoms are only curred, by such Medicines as correct the Acidity and Acrimony of the Blood, viz. When it most partakes of Acrimony by sweet diaphoretick Decoctions, or some sort of Acids, which dull and take off their corroding Edges, or when they are more Acid, by volatile Salts that carry them off by Sweat or Urine; or by Acid Absorbers, which by correcting the Acidities of the Pancreatick Juice, leave the Ferment of the Liver more predominant […]"
2
(physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation wordnet
3
Something that absorbs.; A device which causes gas or vapor to be absorbed by a liquid.
4
Something that absorbs.; A material that absorbs neutrons in a reactor.
5
A person who absorbs.
"Old Lady Dacier’s bluntness in speaking of her grandson would have shocked Lady Wathin as much as it astonished, had she been less of an ardent absorber of aristocratic manners."

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6
A set that, under suitable transformations, can contain any set from a given class within a topological space.
"By proposition 6.5.4, X is a skeletoid and hence an absorber by theorem 6.5.1."

"A growing demand by the middle class and increasing trade between African countries act like a shock absorber for the global economic slowdown."

From absorb + -er.

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