ABSORPTIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does absorptivity mean? 

• ABSORPTIVITY (noun)
  The noun ABSORPTIVITY has 1 sense:

1. (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body

  Familiarity information: ABSORPTIVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSORPTIVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

absorption factor; absorptivity

Hypernyms ("absorptivity" is a kind of...):

physical property (any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Derivation:

absorptive (having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.))