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Definitions: Adsorbent |
AdsorbentAdjective1. Having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface. Noun1. A material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | A material which takes up gas by adsorption. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A substance which has the ability of taking up molecules of gases or liquids by surface adhesion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | A substance or material which adsorbs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AdsorbentSynonyms: adsorptive (adj), surface-assimilative (adj), adsorbent material (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: adsorbing (nuclear energy & physics, chemistry), adsorptive. |
| Antonym: nonadsorbent (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Adsorbent |
| English words defined with "adsorbent": adsorbent material ♦ bleaching clay, bleaching earth ♦ elution ♦ fuller's earth ♦ Kaopectate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adsorbent": activated clay ♦ chromatographic analysis ♦ sorption vacuum pump ♦ thermostatic adsorber charge. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Adsorbent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (adsorbent), Serbo-Croatian (adsorbent). |
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| "Adsorbent" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Adsorbent" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "adsorbent": adsorbent material. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adsorbent | 9 |
adsorbent monolithic | 2 |
adsorbent xenon | 2 |
adsorbent cleanup microporous oil | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adsorbent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | адсорбент. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | adsorptionsmiddel, adsorberende materiale (adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), adsorber (adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | adsorptiemiddel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | adsorptioaine, adsorbentti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adsorbant (adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), support. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Adsorbent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσροφόν μέσον (adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), προσροφητικόν, προσροφητής (adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), απορροφητική ουσία (absorbent, absorbent solution, absorbing solution, sorbent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | assorbente (absorbant, absorbent, absorbent substance, absorber, absorbing, absorptive, adsorbents), agente adsorbente (adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), Adsorbente (absorbent, absorbent substance, absorber, adsorbents, adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), materiale adsorbente (adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 흡착 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adsorbentay agente adsorvente (adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), adsorvente (adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), absorvente (absorbent, absorbent substance, absorber, absorbing, adsorbing, bibulous, engrossing, overmastering, spongy), material adsorvente (adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive). (various references) adsorbant. (various references) адсорбент. (various references) adsorbent. (various references) adsorbente (adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive). (various references) adsorbent. (various references) emici madde (absorbent), emici (absorbent, absorbing, absorptive, bibulous, sucking). (various references) адсорбент. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "adsorbent": adsorbents. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: bandores, baronets, bartends, broadens, broadest. | |
-2 letters: aborted, atoners, banders, bandore, banters, baronet, bartend, boasted, boaster, boaters, bonders, boranes, borated, borates, broaden, dabster, debtors, donates, rebatos, reboant, roasted, robands, rodents, senator, snorted, sorbate, sorbent, stander, tabored, torsade, treason. | |
-3 letters: abodes, aborts, absent, adobes, adores, adorns, adsorb, anodes, antres, ardebs, ardent, arseno, astern, atoned, atoner, atones, bander, banter, bardes, barest, barons, basted, baster, batons, beanos, beards, betons, boards, boarts, boated, boater, bonder, boners, borane, borate, brands, brants, breads, breast, brents, broads, daters, debars, debtor, denars, derats, desorb, dobras, donate, doters, drones, nestor, noters, oaters, orated, orates, oreads, ornate, radons, ranted, reason, rebato, redans, redons, roband, rodent, sabred, sander, sarode, senora, serdab, snared, snored, soared, sonder, sorbed, sorbet, sorned, sorted, staned, stared, sterna, stoned, stoner, stored, strand, strobe, strode, tabers, tabors, tenors, tensor, toners, trades, treads, trends, tronas, trones. | |
-4 letters: abets, abode, abort, adobe, adore, adorn, aeons, anode, anted, antes, antre, ardeb, arose, arson, aster, atone, bands, baned, banes, barde, bards, bared, bares, barns, baron, based, baser, baste, bated, bates, baton, beads, beano, beans, beard, bears, beast, beats, bends, bents, besot, betas, beton, board, boars, boart, boast, boats, bodes, bonds, boned, boner, bones, boras, bored, bores, borne, borts, botas, brads, braes, brand, brans, brant, brats, bread, brens, brent, broad, brose, darbs, dares, darns, darts, dater, dates, datos, deans, dears, debar, debts, denar, dents, derat, doats, dobra, doers, doest, donas, dorsa, doser, doter, dotes, drabs, drats, drest, drone, earns, ebons, etnas, nabes, nards, nares, nates, nears, neats, nerds, nerts, nodes, nosed, noted, noter, notes, oared, oaten, oater, onset, orate, orbed, oread, radon, rands, rants, rased, rated, rates, ratos, reads, redan, redon, redos, rends, rents, resod, roads, roans, roast, robed, robes, rosed, roset, rotas, rotes, sabed, saber, sabot, sabre, saned, saner, santo, sarod, sated, sedan, senor, seton, snare, snore, snort, sober, sonar, sonde, stade, stand, stane, stare, stead, steno, stern, stoae, stone, store, taber, tabes, tabor, tardo, tared, tares, tarns, taros, tears, tends, tenor, terns, toads, toeas, toned, toner, tones, toras, tores, torse, trade, trans, tread, trend, trode, trona, trone, tsade. | |
-5 letters: abed, abet, abos, ados, aeon, aero, ands, anes, ante, ants, arbs, ares, arse, arts, ates, bade, bads, band, bane, bans, bard, bare, barn, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bead, bean, bear, beat, beds, bend, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, boar, boas, boat, bode, bods, bond, bone, bora, bore, born, bort, bota, bots, brad, brae, bran, bras, brat, bred, bren, bros, dabs, darb, dare, darn, dart, date, dato, dean. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: adsorbents. | |
+2 letters: barnstormed, roundtables, subordinate. | |
+3 letters: beardtongues, bombardments, brainstormed, centerboards, debarkations, decarbonates, demonstrable, demonstrably, obdurateness, subordinated, subordinates. | |
+4 letters: battlegrounds, deliberations, insubordinate, skateboarding, subcontracted, subordinately, subordinative. | |
+5 letters: decarbonations, decerebrations, defibrinations, disembarkation, indemonstrable, indemonstrably, insubordinates, obduratenesses, rebroadcasting, rediscountable, roundaboutness, skateboardings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 73 6F 72 62 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. ... --- .-. -... . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01110011 01101111 01110010 01100010 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d s o r b e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0073 006F 0072 0062 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357085818468718086 |
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