Sorption

Definition: Sorption

Sorption

Noun

1. The process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption).

Specialty Definition: Sorption

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	The taking up of gas by absorption, adsorption, chemisorption, or any combination of these process. See absorption. (references)
Environment	The action of soaking up or attracting substances; process used in many pollution control systems. (references)
Geography	The reversible binding of a substance by soil constituents. Source: European Union. (references)
Mechanical Engineering	A general term covering both absorption and adsorption. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	Any type of retention of a material at a surface, esp. when the mechanism is not specified. Adsorption is then restricted to the physical process that leads to the formation of a unimolecular surface layer; chemisorption refers to the corresponding chemical process; and absorption to theentrance of the sorbed material within the solid. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Sorption

Specialty definitions using "sorption": Air Cleaning ♦ bound moisture, bound water ♦ carbon adsorption, combined moisture, combined water ♦ imbibed water ♦ persorption ♦ sorption vacuum pump. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sorption

Domain	Title
Books	Molecular Interpretations of Sorption in Polymers, Part I (reference) Organic Compounds in Soils: Sorption, Degradation and Persistence (reference) Polymer Sorption Phenomena (reference) Sorption and Degradation of Pesticides and Organic Chemicals in Soil: Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored by Divisions S-3, S-1, S-2, and A-5 of th (reference) Sorption and Filtration Methods for Gas and Water Purification (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sorption

"Sorption" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Sorption" 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
Noun (singular)	75%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Sorption

Expressions using "sorption": physical sorption ♦ Sorption Detoxification ♦ sorption pump ♦ sorption vacuum pump. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sorption

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
isotherms sorption	7
sorption	5
phosphorous sorption	3
building component in isotherms sorption	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sorption

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

Danish		sorption. (various references)

Dutch		sorptie. (various references)

Finnish		sorptio (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption), imeytyminen (absorption). (various references)

French		sorption. (various references)

German		Sorption (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption). (various references)

Greek		ρόφηση (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption), προσρόφηση (adsorption). (various references)

Italian		sorbimento, assorbimento (absorption). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		収着 , 吸着 (adsorb, adsorption, attachment). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅうちゃく (adhesion, attachment, tenacity), きゅうちゃく (adsorb, adsorption, attachment). (various references)

Korean		수착. (various references)

Pig Latin		orptionsay

Portuguese		sorção, adsorção, absorção (absorbing, absorption, adsorption, aspiration, input). (various references)

Russian		сорбция. (various references)

Spanish		sorción (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption). (various references)

Swedish		sorption (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption). (various references)

Thai		การ�"ู�"ซับ. (various references)

Turkish		soğurma, kendini verme (absorption), içine çekme (absorption, inhalation), emme (absorption, admission, adsorption, aspiration, soak, suck, sucking, suction, vacuum), emilme (absorption). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sorption

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sorption": sorptions. (additional references)
	Words ending with "sorption": absorption, adsorption, chemisorption, desorption, malabsorption, resorption. (additional references)
	Words containing "sorption": absorptions, adsorptions, chemisorptions, desorptions, malabsorptions, resorptions. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sorption" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Norbiton, seption, sorbitol, sorpion. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sorption

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: portions, positron.
	Words within the letters "i-n-o-o-p-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: nitroso, options, portion, potions, protons, torsion, tropins.
	-2 letters: intros, nitros, option, orison, orpins, pinots, pintos, piston, pitons, points, poison, pooris, pornos, postin, potion, prints, prions, prison, pronto, prosit, proton, ripost, spinor, spinto, sprint, tripos, troops, tropin.
	-3 letters: intro, irons, nitro, noirs, noris, opsin, ornis, orpin, pinot, pinto, pints, pions, pirns, piton, point, poons.
	Words containing the letters "i-n-o-o-p-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: pinkroots, pliotrons, positrons, sorptions, troponins.
	+2 letters: absorption, adsorption, anisotropy, apportions, desorption, entropions, footprints, hoofprints, neotropics, nonprofits, operations, postprison, pourpoints, prenotions, probations, prognostic, promotions, pronations, prorations, protrusion, reposition, resorption, stainproof.
	+3 letters: absorptions, adsorptions, anisotropic, anthropoids, antiprotons, colorpoints, conspirator, corruptions, desorptions, fortepianos, lipotropins, monitorship, nonsporting, opportunism, opportunist, ornithopods, outpourings, perorations, personation, pianofortes, picrotoxins, pollinators, portionless, positronium, postforming, preportions, preposition, productions, progenitors, prognostics, projections, propionates, proportions, proposition, prosecution, prostration, protagonist, protections, protrusions, repositions, resorptions, retinoscopy, sporulation, tropomyosin.
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