ABSORBING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does absorbing mean? 

• ABSORBING (adjective)
  The adjective ABSORBING has 1 sense:

1. capable of arousing and holding the attention

  Familiarity information: ABSORBING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSORBING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of arousing and holding the attention

Synonyms:

absorbing; engrossing; fascinating; gripping; riveting

Context example:

a fascinating story

Similar:

interesting (arousing or holding the attention)

 Context examples 

Perchlorate identified in Martian soil by the Curiosity mission, has properties of absorbing water vapor from the atmosphere and lowering the freezing temperature of water.

(Mars Rover's Weather Data Bolster Case for Brine, NASA)

In MALDI-TOF, a laser pulse is fired into a protein or peptide sample contained in a light-absorbing matrix.

(Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)

A diaphragm or system of diaphragms made of an absorbing material, designed to define and restrict the dimensions and direction of a beam of radiation.

(Collimator, NCI Thesaurus)

After absorbing what you are being told, you will adapt, but it could take days or weeks.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They have both absorptive and secretory functions, absorbing water, sodium and short-chain fatty acids while secreting bicarbonate and potassium.

(Large Intestinal Glandular Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

That light interacted with free-floating hydrogen atoms, which began absorbing surrounding CMB photons.

(Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe, National Science Foundation)

Our technology significantly increases the resistance threshold against harmful radiation compared to today's technologies, which rely on absorbing radiation with thick filters.

(Protecting Astronauts from Radiation in Space, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

However, the observations did not detect reflected light, meaning that the daytime side of the planet is absorbing almost all the starlight falling onto it.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)

The damage from this attack keeps the body from absorbing needed nutrients.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)

I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very absorbing.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)