Absorption

• Absorption (biology), digestion • Absorption (small intestine) • Absorption (chemistry), diffusion of particles of gas or liquid into liquid or solid materials • Absorption (skin), a route by which substances enter the body through the skin • Absorption (pharmacology), absorption of drugs into the body ==Physics and chemical engineering==

• Absorption (acoustics), absorption of sound waves by a material • Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), absorption of light or other electromagnetic radiation by a material • Absorption air conditioning, a type of solar air conditioning • Absorption refrigerator, a refrigerator that runs on surplus heat rather than electricity • Dielectric absorption, the inability of a charged capacitor to completely discharge when briefly discharged ==Mathematics and economics==

• Absorption (economics), the total demand of an economy for goods and services both from within and without • Absorption (logic), one of the rules of inference • Absorption costing, or total absorption costing, a method for appraising or valuing a firm's total inventory by including all the manufacturing costs incurred to produce those goods • Absorbing element, in mathematics, an element that does not change when it is combined in a binary operation with some other element • Absorption law, in mathematics, an identity linking a pair of binary operations ==See also==