# absorber
## English
### Etymology

From absorb +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /əbˈsɔɹ.bɚ/, /əbˈzɔɹ.bɚ/, /æbˈsɔɹ.bɚ/, /æbˈzɔɹ.bɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

absorber (plural absorbers)
* Something that absorbs.
** 1698, Richard Boulton, A Treatise Concerning the Heat of the Blood and Also of the Use of the Lungs‎, London: A. & J. Churchill, page 121:[…] these Symptoms are only curred, by such Medicines as correct the Acidity and Acrimony of the Blood, viz. When it most partakes of Acrimony by sweet diaphoretick Decoctions, or some sort of Acids, which dull and take off their corroding Edges, or when they are more Acid, by volatile Salts that carry them off by Sweat or Urine; or by Acid Absorbers, which by correcting the Acidities of the Pancreatick Juice, leave the Ferment of the Liver more predominant […]
** 1756, Thomas Amory, The Life of John Buncle, Esq., London: J. Noon, Chapter 36 “Remarks on the delluge,” p. ,
    The swallows especially must do great work in the case, if we take into their number not only very many open gulphs or chasms, the depth of which no line or sound can reach; but likewise the communications of very many parts of the sea, and of many great unfathomable lochs, with the abyss. These absorbers could easily receive what had before come out of them.
** c. 1869, Joel Dorman Steele, Answers to the Practical Questions and Problems contained in the Fourteen Weeks Courses in Physiology, Philosophy, Astronomy, and Chemistry‎, New York: A.S. Barnes, page 45:Which can be ignited the more easily with a burning-glass, black or white paper? Black paper, since it is a much better absorber of heat.
** A device which causes gas or vapor to be absorbed by a liquid. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
** (nuclear physics) A material that absorbs neutrons in a reactor.
* A person who absorbs. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
** 1885, George Meredith, chapter 12, in Diana of the Crossways‎, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, pages 272–273:Old Lady Dacier’s bluntness in speaking of her grandson would have shocked Lady Wathin as much as it astonished, had she been less of an ardent absorber of aristocratic manners.
** 1958, Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy‎, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book One, Chapter 5, p. 23:[…] since few wanted mosaics any more he had turned to fresco, becoming the greatest absorber and eclectic in Italy. He had learned everything that the earlier fresco painters, from the time of Cimabue, had to teach.
** 1999, David Foster Wallace, “The Depressed Person”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men‎, New York: Back Bay Books, page 47:[…] Walter D. (“Walt”) DeLasandro Jr. had been able to bill her parents $130 an hour plus expenses for being put in the middle and playing the role of mediator and absorber of shit from both sides while she (i.e., the depressed person, as a child) had had to perform essentially the same coprophagous services on a more or less daily basis for free […]
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** 1988, J. van Mill, Infinite-Dimensional Topology: Prerequisites and Introduction, page 285:By proposition 6.5.4, X is a skeletoid and hence an absorber by theorem 6.5.1.
** 2020, Howard Cook, Continua: With the Houston Problem Book, page 70:Skeletoids and absorbers play an important role in infinite-dimensional topology. The existence and uniqueness of skeletoids (and absorbers) with respect to certain collections allow one to study completely metrizable infinite-dimensional manifolds by using the technique of compact manifolds, incomplete manifolds by those of complete ones and so on.

#### Derived terms

* absorberman
* photoabsorber
* shock absorber
* superabsorber
* Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory

#### Translations
### References

* 1 2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absorber”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.

### Anagrams

* Barberos, reabsorb

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin absorbēre (“absorb”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ap.sɔʁ.be/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

absorber
* to absorb

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “absorber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* absorver (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

From Latin absorbeō.

### Verb

absorber (first-person singular present absorbo, first-person singular preterite absorbín, past participle absorbido)
* (transitive) to absorb

#### Related terms

* absorción
* absorbente

### Further reading

* “absorber”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /absɔrˈbeːr/, /apsɔrˈbeːr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eːr
* Hyphenation: ab‧sor‧ber

### Verb

absorber
* imperative of absorbere

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English absorber. First attested in 1922.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /apˈsɔr.bɛr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrbɛr
* Syllabification: ab‧sor‧ber

### Noun

absorber m inan
* (chemistry, technology) absorber (device causing gas or vapor to be absorbed by a liquid)
    Synonym: pochłaniacz
* (technology) scrubber (device that removes impurities from gases)
    Synonyms: aparat absorpcyjny, płuczka, skruber

#### Related terms

* absorpcjometryczny
* absorpcyjny
* absorpcjometrycznie
* absorbancja
* absorbat
* absorbencjum
* absorbent
* absorpcja
* absorpcjometr
* absorpcjometria
* absorpcyjność
* absorbować impf, zaabsorbować pf

#### See also

* adsorber

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “absorber”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Przemysł Chemiczny : miesięcznik poświęcony sprawom polskiego przemysłu chemicznego, wydawany staraniem Instytutu Badań Naukowych i Technicznych "Metan" we Lwowie‎, number R. 6, nr 6, 1922, page 165

### Further reading

* absorber in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* absorber in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin absorbēre (“absorb”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /absoɾˈbeɾ/ [aβ̞.soɾˈβ̞eɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɾ
* Syllabification: ab‧sor‧ber

### Verb

absorber (first-person singular present absorbo, first-person singular preterite absorbí, past participle absorbido)
* (transitive) to absorb
* (transitive) to use up, to deplete
    Synonym: agotar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* absorbencia
* absorbente
* absorbible
* absorbimiento

#### Related terms

* absorción
* absorto

### Further reading

* “absorber”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10