Adsorptive

Definition: Adsorptive

Adsorptive

Adjective

1. Having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface.

Domain	Definitions
Health	It captures volatile compounds by binding them to agents such as activated carbon or adsorptive resins. (references)
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Synonyms: Adsorptive

Synonyms: adsorbent (adj), surface-assimilative (adj). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: adsorbent (nuclear energy & physics, chemistry), adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive, adsorptive trap (medicine).

Antonym: nonadsorbent (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Adsorptive

English words defined with "adsorptive": activate. (references)

Specialty definitions using "adsorptive": adsorptive trap, Asialoglycoproteins. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Adsorptive" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (adsorptive).

"Adsorptive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adsorptive" is used about 4 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	4	175,879

Expressions using "adsorptive": adsorptive agent:adsorptive ♦ adsorptive trap. Additional references.
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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.

Language		Translations for "adsorptive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		吸附 (adsorb, adsorbed, adsorbing, adsorption). (various references)

Danish		adsorberende materiale (adsorbent, adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), adsorber (adsorbent, adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive). (various references)

French		adsorbant (adsorbent, adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), piège absorbant (adsorptive trap), collecteur absorbant (adsorptive trap). (various references)

German		adsorptive. (various references)

Greek		προσροφητικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		adszorpciós. (various references)

Italian		agente adsorbente (adsorbent, adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), Adsorbente (absorbent, absorbent substance, absorber, adsorbent, adsorbents, adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), materiale adsorbente (adsorbent, adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive). (various references)

Korean		흡착� � 있�". (various references)

Pig Latin		adsorptiveay

Portuguese		agente adsorvente (adsorbent, adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), adsorvente (adsorbent, adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), material adsorvente (adsorbent, adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive). (various references)

Russian		адсорбирующий. (various references)

Spanish		adsorbente (adsorbent, adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive), trampa adsorbente (adsorptive trap), sustancia adsorbente (adsorbent, adsorbing material, adsorptive agent:adsorptive). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Adsorptive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adsorptivity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-o-p-r-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: deviators, vaporised.
	-2 letters: adopters, adoptive, asteroid, avodires, avoiders, deviator, diaspore, dioptase, diopters, dioptres, disprove, overpaid, overpast, overtips, parodies, parodist, parotids, pastored, peridots, postdive, privates, proteids, provides, rapidest, readopts, riposted, sorptive, sportive, topsider, traipsed, travoise, vaporise, viatores, votaries.
	-3 letters: adipose, adopter, adverts, adviser, advisor, airpost, aridest, aspired, astride, atopies, avodire, avoider, datives, departs, deports, deposit, despair, devisor, devoirs, diapers, diaster, diopter, dioptre, diptera, dispart, disport, disrate, diverts, dopiest, editors, esparto, iodates, opiated, opiates, ovaries, overapt, oversad, overtip, parotid, partied, parties, parvise, pastier, paviors, paviser, peridot, periods, petards, piaster, piastre, pirated, pirates, pivoted, podesta, podites, posited, praised, private, privets, prostie, proteas, proteid, provide, readopt, redtops, reposit, riposte, roadies, roasted, ropiest, savored, seaport, soapier, sopited, sortied, sparoid, spaviet, spirted, sported, staider, starved, steroid, storied, striped, strived, tardies, tirades, toadies, topside, torpids, torsade, traipse, travois, triodes, tripods, vapored, vastier, veritas, viators, visored, vistaed, voiders.
	-4 letters: adepts, adopts, adores, adroit, advert, advise, aiders, airest, airted, aivers, aorist, ariose, aristo, aroids, aspire, averts, avoids, avoset, daters, dative, davies, davits, deairs, depart, deport, depots, derats, despot, devoir, diaper, direst, divers, divert, divest, divots, dopers, dopier, dories, doters, dotier, drapes, driest, drives, droits, droves, editor, esprit, iodate, irades, oaters, operas, opiate, orated, orates, oreads, padres, paired, pardie, pareos, paries, parsed, parted, parvis, parvos, pasted, paster, pastie, pastor, paters, patios, patois, pavers, pavior, pavise, pedros, period, petard, petsai, pietas, pirate, pivots, podite, poised, poiser, ported, posted, poster, potsie, praise, prated, prates, presto, prides, priest, prised, privet, prosed, prosit, protea, protei, proved, proves, radios, raised, rapids, rapist, rasped, ratios, redias, redips, redipt, redtop, repaid, repast, repots, resaid, respot, rioted, ripest, ripost, rivets, roadie, sapote, sarode, satire, satori, savior, soaped, soaper, soared, sopite, sorted, sortie, soviet, spader, spared, sparid, spavie, spider, spirea, spired, spited, spored, spread, sprite, stared, starve, staved, stiped, stiver, stoped, stoper, stored, stover, striae, stride, stripe, strive, strode, strove, tapers, tapirs, terais, tirade, todies, topers, tories, torpid, trades, trapes, traves, treads, trepid, triads, triode, triose, tripes, tripod, tripos, tropes, troves, vadose, vapors, varied, varies, vaster, verist, vespid, viator, videos, vipers, vireos, visaed, visard, voider, voters.
	-5 letters: adept, adios, adits, adopt, adore, aider, aides, aired, airts, aiver, apers, apods, aport, apres, apter, arise, aroid, arose, arvos, aside, asper, aster, astir, atrip, avers, avert, aviso, avoid, dares, darts, dater, dates, datos, davit, deair, dears, deist, depot, derat, devas, diets, dipso, dirts, ditas, dites, divas, diver, dives, divot, doats, doers, doest, doits, dopas, doper, dopes, dorps, dorsa, doser, doter, dotes, doves, drape, drats, drave, drest, dries.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-o-p-r-s-t-v"
	+2 letters: depravations, deprivations.
	+3 letters: privatdocents, privatdozents.
	+5 letters: predevaluations.
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