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absorptive

adj, noun — 2 senses

absorptive

adj

US /æbˈsɔɹp.tɪv/

Etymology From absorb + -tive.

1

Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.

  • In practice, from that date onwards until recent times, the economic absorptive capacity of the country has been treated as the sole limiting factor […]1939, British White Paper of Palestine of 1939:
Derived terms
absorptively, absorptiveness, absorptivity, hyperabsorptive, immunoabsorptive, isoabsorptive, malabsorptive, nonabsorptive, postabsorptive, preabsorptive, reabsorptive

absorptive

noun

Etymology From absorb + -tive.

1

Any substance that absorbs.

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