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nonabsorbing

adj

Etymology

From non- + absorbing.

  1. derived from *srebʰ-✻
  2. derived from absorbeō — “swallow up”
  3. derived from assorbir
  4. derived from absorber
  5. suffixed as absorbing — “absorb + ing”
  6. prefixed as nonabsorbing — “non + absorbing”

Definitions

  1. That does not absorb (sound, radiation, fluid etc.)

    • Equation 2 applies only to the case of a dielectric nonabsorbing particle and unpolarized incident radiation.
    • Another simple, but practically important, case is one of the nonabsorbing film of thickness d₁ on the absorbing film of thickness d₂ over a nonabsorbing substrate.

  2. That permits a transition to a different state.

    • To interprest the results given by the fundamental matrix, recall that the nonabsorbing states are states 3 and 4.
    • A matrix C where C = NR determines the probability that the chain will enter a particular absorbing state having begun in a given nonabsorbing state.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonabsorbing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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