What is "absorptions"

Usage examples of "absorptions".

Each time one of these temporary absorptions occurred, Maia thought she heard a distant, low sound, like a humming gong.

So we sit and stare at Frater Antony’s little jade skull-pendant, and we’re told to perform various metaphorical absorptions and engulfments having to do with the relation of death to life, but what they really want us to do is learn how to focus all our mental energy on a single object.

And slowly it had eaten at the edges of the water pipe until it had undermined its structure and caused infalls, which nibble it patiently eroded by absorptions and scrubbing.

There was his accessing, a succession of minor absorptions, broken up by periods of light office exercise and a midday meal.

Removing most or all of the ancient viral genes, including SHEVA genes, produces gross chromosomal abnormalities following mitosis, failure of fertilized eggs to implant, early absorptions, and miscarriages.

So I imagine the primer is being sent at the frequency of the oxygen absorptions in the microwave spec trum, or in the near-infrared -- some part of the spectrum you can't detect until you're well out of the Earth's atmosphere .