Sorbent

Definition: Sorbent

Sorbent

Noun

1. A material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption.

Etymology: Sorbent \Sorb"ent\, noun. [Latin expression sorbens, present participle of sorbere to suck in, to absorb.]. (Websters 1913)

"Sorbent" is a common misspelling or typo for: sorbet.

Specialty Definition: Sorbent

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	The material which takes up gas by sorption. (references)
Mechanical Engineering	A substance possessing the characteristic ability of absorption or adsorption. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: Sorbent

Synonym: sorbent material (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sorbent

Specialty definitions using "sorbent": disposable respirator ♦ Enterosorption ♦ Flue Gas Desulfurization ♦ Sorption Detoxification. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sorbent

Domain	Title
Books	Sorbent material for spills and other liquid pickups (reference) Sorbent materials : technical review (reference) Sorbent materials for non-spill applications : market study (reference) Sorbent Extraction Technology Handbook (reference) (more book examples)
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Expression: Sorbent

Expression using "sorbent": sorbent material. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sorbent

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
sorbent	76
sorbent system	7
sorbent product	7
oil sorbent	6
sorbent boom	3
sorbent technology	3
international sorbent technology	3
sorbent pad	3
sorbent tube	2
safety sorbent	2
company product sorbent	2
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Modern Translation: Sorbent

Language		Translations for "sorbent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		吸着剂. (various references)

Danish		sorptionsmiddel. (various references)

Dutch		sorptiemiddel. (various references)

Finnish		sorboiva aine, sorbentti. (various references)

French		sorbant. (various references)

German		Sorbens. (various references)

Greek		απορροφητική ουσία (absorbent, absorbent solution, absorbing solution, adsorbent). (various references)

Italian		una volta circoscritta la chiazza d'olio,possono essere istituite misure di ripulitura;le due tecniche maggiormente usate sono la raccolta meccanica e il ricupero mediante assorbenti (clean-up measures can be instituted;the two major techniques used today are mechanical gathering and sorbent recovery, once an oil spill(oil slick)has been contained). (various references)

Korean		흡수� �. (various references)

Pig Latin		orbentsay

Portuguese		sorvente. (various references)

Russian		сорбент. (various references)

Spanish		sorbente. (various references)

Swedish		sorbent. (various references)

Thai		สารหรือกระบวนการ�"ู�"ซึม. (various references)

Ukrainian		сорбент. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Sorbent

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sorbent": sorbents. (additional references)
	Words ending with "sorbent": absorbent, adsorbent, immunosorbent, nonabsorbent, radioallergosorbent, superabsorbent, unabsorbent. (additional references)
	Words containing "sorbent": absorbents, adsorbents, immunosorbents, nonabsorbents, superabsorbents. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sorbent"

Words rhyming with "sorbent" (pronounced 'Sorb"ent'): Advertent, Ament, Assument, Clement, Client, Coexistent, Coherent, Concludent, Connivent, Consistent, Contendent, Co-respondent, Covent, Figent, inadvertent, inclement, incoherent, inconsistent, inherent, insistent, interdependent, Multipresent, Nonexistent, Obtundent, Occludent, Omnipresent, parent, Pendent, persistent, Postexistent, Preexistent, Propendent, Provent, Rament, Reflectent, Resorbent, Retrocedent, Revertent, Scient, Self-dependent, Self-existent, Semiadherent, semitransparent, Strepent, Subsistent, talent, transcendent, transparent. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Sorbent

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-n-o-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: betons, boners, brents, nestor, noters, sorbet, stoner, strobe, tenors, tensor, toners, trones.
	-2 letters: bents, besot, beton, boner, bones, bores, borne, borts, brens, brent, brose, ebons, nerts, noter, notes, onset, rents, robes, roset, rotes, senor, seton, snore, snort, sober, steno, stern, stone, store, tenor, terns, toner, tones, tores, torse, trone.
	-3 letters: bens, bent, best.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-n-o-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: baronets, bestrown, bethorns, bornites, brownest, burstone, sorbents.
	+2 letters: absorbent, adsorbent, baritones, barytones, betatrons, bevatrons, brimstone, bronziest, browniest, buhrstone, burgonets, burrstone, burstones, buttoners, curbstone, observant, obtainers, rebuttons, reobtains, taborines, tenebrous, trombones.
	+3 letters: abnegators, absorbents, adsorbents, barbitones, bestrowing, birthstone, bolstering, bonesetter, breastbone, brimstones, brominates, brownstone, buhrstones, burrstones, carbonates, corybantes, curbstones, insobriety, lobstering, lobsterman, lobstermen, observants, outnumbers, robustness, stubborner, subnetwork, subreption, subroutine, tenebrious, warbonnets.
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