the process or action by which one thing absorbs or is absorbed by another (被)吸收;(被)合并 East Germany's absorption into West Germany. 东德并入西德。 shock absorption. 减震。
the fact or state of being engrossed in something 被吸引;全神贯注 her absorption in the problems of the Third World. 她对第三世界问题的专注。
派生 absorptive adjective 语源
late 16th cent. (in the sense 'the swallowing up of something'): from Latin absorptio(n-), from absorbere 'swallow up' (see absorb)