What is "absorptive"

Usage examples of "absorptive".

The probe was defeated by an aetheric phenomenon more subtle than a mental screen, a dynamic field manifestation unfamiliar to Elizabeth, more absorptive than reflective.

Not a sigma-that would stick out like a beacon-but something absorptive that swallows my mental beam instead of reflecting it.

Because Talisman is an absorptive piece, that is, it will soak up the King's play.

The player is a student, without power, so he plays Talisman, an absorptive piece of the lesser ephemera.

Because Talisman is an absorptive piece, that is, it will soak up the King’s play.

Aren't they apt to know that we have inherently indetectable ships and almost perfectly absorptive coatings?

Coated stem to stern with a three-foot-thick coating of some new absorptive substances the Russians developed.

Somewhere-sometime in that hot sea as he struggled between the freezing darkness and the burning light and satisfied his compelling hunger by growing into an absorptive cup, a cylinder, a blob with an internal gut, as he extruded fins and nascent flukes and swam erratically after game, and formed eyes to harness the light at last and gills to breathe the water and the lateral line system to navigate by-somewhere during that complex billion-year development that preceded his rise to land the little arths had taken their own mysterious but highly successful course.

And he remembered that too: somewhere a billion years ago he had struggled between freezing darkness and burning light, and satisfied his compelling hunger by growing into an absorptive cup, a cylinder, a blob with an internal gut, by extruding fins and flukes and swimming erratically after game.

Somewhere—sometime in that hot sea as he struggled between the freezing darkness and the burning light and satisfied his compelling hunger by growing into an absorptive cup, a cylinder, a blob with an internal gut, as he extruded fins and nascent flukes and swam erratically after game, and formed eyes to harness the light at last and gills to breathe the water and the lateral line system to navigate by—somewhere during that complex billion-year development that preceded his rise to land the little arths had taken their own mysterious but highly successful course.

To reduce the reflection to the absolute minimum, the ships had each been painted with a 99% absorptive black.

He found it disconcerting, the absorptive black surface, sharp edges, it didn't seem to belong here at the centre of nature's passive domain, an intrusive foreigner.

The halocarbons in the cocktail were powerful greenhouse gases, and the best thing about them was that they absorbed outgoing planetary radiation at the 8-to 12-micron wavelength, the so-called "window" where neither water vapor nor CO2 had much absorptive ability.

The halocarbons in the cocktail were powerful greenhouse gases, and the best thing about them was that they absorbed outgoing planetary radiation at the 8-to 12-micron wavelength, the so-called “window” where neither water vapor nor CO2 had much absorptive ability.

This does not, however, appear likely to lead to any important industry, but absorptive material has been produced from white Sphagnum Moss and Wood Pulp.