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Absorber

Absorber \Ab*sorb"er\, n. One who, or that which, absorbs.

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absorber

n. 1 A device which causes gas or vapor to be absorbed by a liquid. (First attested in the mid 19th century.)(R:SOED5: page=9) 2 A person that absorbs. (First attested in the mid 19th century.) 3 (context nuclear physics English) A material that absorbs neutrons in a reactor.

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absorber

n. (physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation

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Absorber
  1. Redirect Particle physics experiments
Absorber (album)

Absorber is the second studio album by the German techno and electro project of the Munich-based DJ and producer Florian Senfter a.k.a. Zombie Nation. It was released on September 1, 2003 on his self-founded Record Label Dekathlon Records.

Usage examples of "absorber".

Vorkulian wall-screen generators, absorbers, and dissipators was installed, with sufficient accumulator capacity for their operation.

Your meniscus, which is a piece of cartilage in the middle of your knee, not only acts as a shock absorber but also has several other functions.

It is a critical point where the A-arm connects both to the shock absorber and to the monocoque frame of the Porsche.

By taking extracted glucosamine, you might be able to keep the cartilage pliable enough to help maintain adequate lubrication between your joints and to act as a shock absorber between bones.

When they were gone he first cleaned the surface of the metal with carburetor cleaner, then applied a thin coating of what looked like double-sided tape to the top of the shock absorber.

Encountering chuckholes, cracks, and patches in the pavement, the tires stuttered as hard as rapping hammers, and Dylan worried about the consequences of a blowout at this lightning pace, but he pressed the Expedition to 96, taxing the shock absorbers, torturing the springs, onward to 97, with engine screaming and wind of their own manufacture shrieking at the windows, to 98, between bracketing big rigs, around a sleek Jaguar with a cruise-missile whoosh that elicited a disapproving blast of the sports car's horn, to 99.

The body is lowered, and the suspension has upgraded shock absorbers, antiroll bars, and springs.

The fuel/oxidant aerosol expands to fill a large volume before it detonates -- the blast jolts him back on his shock absorbers and ripples down the tunnel.

All of you will wear the new special absorbers and thus you won't be detectable as organic life-except for Putzi.

But we have to consider all possibilities-even that the absorbers might not be 100% effective.

She even felt one of them herself, which, given the car's shock absorbers, meant they were strong indeed.

She even felt one of them herself, which, given the car’s shock absorbers, meant they were strong indeed.

She fought to bring biologists and chemists to Venera to look at the absorbers, just on the chance that someone else would finally see what she saw.

The widely spaced legs of the undercarriage made contact, their pads tilted according to the contours of the ground, and the whole ship rocked slightly for a second as the shock absorbers neutralized the residual energy of impact.

A complete air-conditioning plant, with its liquid-oxygen tanks, humidity and carbon-dioxide absorbers, temperature and pressure regulators, had to be dismantled and loaded on to a sledge.