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What does absorption mean?

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Noun
  1. The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,
    1. (obsolete) engulfing; swallowing up, as of bodies or land. [Attested from the late 16th century until the mid 18th century.]
    2. assimilate; incorporation. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
    3. (chemistry) the imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action, of radiant energy; the process of being neutrons being absorbed by the nucleus; interception. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
    4. (physiology) in living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs; taking in by various means, such as by osmosis. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
  2. Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
  3. Mental assimilation. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
  4. (electrical engineering) The retaining of electrical energy for a short time after it has been introduced to the dielectric.
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Spam's absorption into popular culture indicates that it has become a fact of life.
Overall light absorption by the whole canopy remains high despite deciduousness in the overstorey.
Here status preservation came through absorption into the expanding state bureaucracy and army.
Nor is it merely that their absorption into domesticity makes functional sense in a commercial and industrial society.
The key point about nicotine gum pharmacology is that the absorption takes place buccally.
The speaker's absorption in the beautiful image turns him into a Narcissus who can never be satisfied.

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