absorber
[ab-sawr-ber, -zawr-]
- a person or thing that absorbs.
- shock absorber.
- Physics. a material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs neutrons without reproducing them.
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Origin of absorber
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Related Words for absorber
armor, buffer, safeguard, shelter, bulwark, screen, armament, cover, guard, defense, aegis, escutcheon, rampart, mail, ward, security, absorber, bumper, bucklerExamples from the Web for absorber
Historical Examples of absorber
The absorber was not as ambitious a structure as the engine house.
The Forbidden TrailHonor Willsie
You and Gustav clean up after the storm to-morrow and go on with the absorber.
The Forbidden TrailHonor Willsie
At five o'clock Sunday afternoon, the absorber was finished.
The Forbidden TrailHonor Willsie
You will laugh at me and tell me to increase the absorber area, will you!
The Forbidden TrailHonor Willsie
You are too much of a master there, to be merely an absorber.
Twenty Years in EuropeSamuel H. M. Byers
absorber
- a person or thing that absorbs
- physics a material that absorbs radiation or causes it to lose energy
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