absorption   (Sound)

The noun absorption has 6 senses

• absorption, soaking up -- ((chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid)


• absorption -- ((physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium; "the absorption of photons by atoms or molecules")


• assimilation, absorption -- (the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another)


• assimilation, absorption -- (the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion)


• concentration, engrossment, absorption, immersion -- (complete attention; intense mental effort)


• preoccupation, preoccupancy, absorption, engrossment -- (the mental state of being preoccupied by something)