absorption
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Nearly 30 hours of exposure time collected enough light for the team to identify extremely faint absorption features in the spectra of the distant galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
He eventually identified three whose absorption patterns showed evidence of heavy elements including carbon, oxygen and silicon.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Chow thinks Tenaga absorption of 120 million ringgit-150 million ringgit in fuel-adjustment charges to be a one-off cost, though the precedent could weigh on sentiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The absorption lines were "blueshifted" compared with the redshift of the galaxies themselves.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
I think she could tolerate another woman, but not this complete absorption in something she can’t follow.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
Organic growth was 10%, of which 4% was same clinic growth and 6% from clinic absorptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
A record of fascinations is at risk of careening into self-indulgence, but “Affinities” is also a record of absorptions, both Dillon’s and those of the artists he loves.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
These epithelia are active in the secretion and absorptions of molecules.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine and other “re-photographers” delighted and outraged viewers with their canny absorptions of other artists’ work.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2010
We lean, side by side, over our balcony, lost in such egotistical absorptions, quite heedless of the great palace of noble dreams to which our first enterprise has brought us.
From A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Vocabulary lists containing absorption
Chemistry - Introductory
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Photosynthesis - Middle School
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Chemistry - High School
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