Absorptive is an English word with synonyms like absorbent or thirsty. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Absorptive in a sentence
Absorptive meaning
Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
Synonyms of Absorptive
Using Absorptive
- The main meaning on this page is: Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
- Useful related words include: absorbent, thirsty, spongelike, spongy.
- In the example corpus, absorptive often appears in combinations such as: the absorptive, absorptive capacity, absorptive index.
Context around Absorptive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Absorptive
- In this selection, "absorptive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, post, non, capacity, index and refractive stand out and add context to how "absorptive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include component the absorptive index of and environment s absorptive capacity e. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "absorptive" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with absorptive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Normally, the heat from a flue powers an " absorptive chiller ". (10 words)
They are subsequently moved to absorptive enterocyte cells lining the intestines. (11 words)
Fund pollutants Fund pollutants are those for which the environment has some absorptive capacity. (14 words)
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). (31 words)
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. (28 words)
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). (28 words)
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.
Common combinations with absorptive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: