"adsorption" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-adsorption.wav Forms: adsorptions [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from German Adsorption, from ad- + (Ab)sorption. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Adsorption}} German Adsorption, {{pre|de|ad|Absorption|alt2=(Ab)sorption|nocat=1}} ad- + (Ab)sorption Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} adsorption (countable and uncountable, plural adsorptions)
  1. The adhesion of a liquid or gas on the surface of a solid material, forming a thin film on the surface. Wikipedia link: adsorption Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: adsorb, adsorbability, adsorbable, adsorbate, adsorbent, absorption, sorption Translations (process of forming a film on the surface of a solid): পরিশোষণ (poriśōśon) (Bengali), адсо́рбция (adsórbcija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), adsorció [feminine] (Catalan), 吸附 (xīfù) (Chinese Mandarin), adsorptsioon (Estonian), adsorptio (Finnish), adsorption [feminine] (French), Adsorption [feminine] (German), προσρόφηση (prosrófisi) [feminine] (Greek), अधिशोषण (adhiśoṣaṇ) (Hindi), adszorpció (Hungarian), penjerapan (Indonesian), adsorpsi (Indonesian), asú [masculine] (Irish), asúchán [masculine] (Irish), adsorbimento (Italian), 吸着 (kyūchaku) (Japanese), അധിശോഷണം (adhiśōṣaṇaṁ) (Malayalam), adsorpcja [feminine] (Polish), adsorção [feminine] (Portuguese), адсо́рбция (adsórbcija) (Russian), адсо̀рпција [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), adsòrpcija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), adsorción [feminine] (Spanish), adsorption [common-gender] (Swedish), adsorpsiyon (Turkish), hấp phụ (Vietnamese)

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      "word": "അധിശോഷണം"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "process of forming a film on the surface of a solid",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adsorpcja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "process of forming a film on the surface of a solid",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adsorção"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "adsórbcija",
      "sense": "process of forming a film on the surface of a solid",
      "word": "адсо́рбция"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "process of forming a film on the surface of a solid",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "адсо̀рпција"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "process of forming a film on the surface of a solid",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adsòrpcija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "process of forming a film on the surface of a solid",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adsorción"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "process of forming a film on the surface of a solid",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "adsorption"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "process of forming a film on the surface of a solid",
      "word": "adsorpsiyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "process of forming a film on the surface of a solid",
      "word": "hấp phụ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "adsorption"
}

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