ABSORBENT MATERIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does absorbent material mean? 

• ABSORBENT MATERIAL (noun)
  The noun ABSORBENT MATERIAL has 1 sense:

1. a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance

  Familiarity information: ABSORBENT MATERIAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSORBENT MATERIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

absorbent; absorbent material

Hypernyms ("absorbent material" is a kind of...):

sorbent; sorbent material (a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "absorbent material"):

sponge (a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used)

absorber ((physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation)

absorbent cotton (cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax)

 Context examples 

A solid composed of a small piece of absorbent material that does not contain active ingredient(s), attached to one end of a small stick.

(Non-Medicated Swab Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid composed of active and/or inert ingredient(s) on a small piece of absorbent material attached to one end of a stick.

(Medicated Swab Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A large piece of relatively flat, absorbent material that contains a drug.

(Cloth Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A solid composed active and/or inert ingredient(s) in a woven absorbent material.

(Cloth Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)