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Absorptive
Absorptive meaning
Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
Example sentences (10)
Promoting local investment and supporting our small entrepreneurs to set up businesses will directly increase the absorptive capacity of our economy.
Breath alcohol testing further assumes that the test is post-absorptive—that is, that the absorption of alcohol in the subject's body is complete.
From here, the reflected and/or refracted rays may strike other surfaces, where their absorptive, refractive, reflective and fluorescent properties again affect the progress of the incoming rays.
Fund pollutants do not cause damage to the environment unless the emission rate exceeds the receiving environment's absorptive capacity (e.g. carbon dioxide, which is absorbed by plants and oceans).
Fund pollutants Fund pollutants are those for which the environment has some absorptive capacity.
In water, this is where the absorptive index starts to drop sharply, and the minimum of the imaginary permittivity is at the frequency of blue light (optical regime).
Normally, the heat from a flue powers an " absorptive chiller ".
The cone is placed with the wide end down onto a level, non-absorptive surface.
There are two maxima of the imaginary component (the absorptive index) of water, one at the microwave frequency, and the other at far ultraviolet (UV) frequency.
They are subsequently moved to absorptive enterocyte cells lining the intestines.