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absorption

noun as in total attention toward something

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The Halo from Aston Microphones is specifically engineered with ridges to maximize surface area and consequently provide the maximum sound absorption possible in this portable form factor.

Additionally, the outer segments can fold independently to use the isolation shield in tighter spaces or when more sound absorption is required.

Simulated stones were constructed to minimize sound absorption, much like actual stones at Stonehenge, Cox says.

The model’s predictions matched the absorption peaks of chlorophyll a and b, which green plants use to harvest red and blue light.

Applying the model to the sunlight available where those bacteria live, the researchers predicted what the optimal absorption peaks should be.

This may cause a negative autoimmune response, and inhibits proper digestion and nutrient absorption.

But for all his self-absorption, the Japanese Beethoven ought to have learned from his German counterpart in another manner.

It seems like your piece is a sort of a satire of the self-absorption and self-obsession of humans.

The progress of absorption is measured in decades, even centuries.

Almost 20 years before the HBO series of the same name, Ken Finkleman caricatured the self-absorption of TV news anchors.

Tests are of value in recognizing poisoning from ingestion and in detecting absorption from carbolized dressings.

It is a blind act of unconscious absorption, however little be absorbed.

It all charmed him inexpressibly, so that he realised—yes, in a sense—the degradation of his twenty years' absorption in business.

A simple experiment of Boussingault's illustrates this absorption very strikingly.

In the flowers, both by day and night, there is a constant absorption of oxygen, and evolution of carbonic acid.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to absorption, such as: consumption, digestion, intake, penetration, retention, and saturation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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