absorptive
English
Etymology
absorption + -ive
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æbˈsɔɹp.tɪv/, /əbˈsɔɹp.tɪv/, /əbˈzɔɹp.tɪv/, /æbˈzɔɹp.tɪv/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Adjective
absorptive (comparative more absorptive, superlative most absorptive)
- Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent. [First attested in the mid 17th century.][1]
- 1939, British White Paper of Palestine of 1939:
- In practice, from that date onwards until recent times, the economic absorptive capacity of the country has been treated as the sole limiting factor […]
Derived terms
Translations
having capacity to imbibe
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Translations
any substance that absorbs
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References
- Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absorptive”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /absɔrpˈtiːʋə/, /apsɔrpˈtiːʋə/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iːʋə
- Hyphenation: ab‧sorp‧ti‧ve
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