absorbers

Noun

absorber (plural absorbers)

1. Something that absorbs.
   • […] these Symptoms are only curred, by such Medicines as correct the Acidity and Acrimony of the Blood, viz. When it most partakes of Acrimony by sweet diaphoretick Decoctions, or some sort of Acids, which dull and take off their corroding Edges, or when they are more Acid, by volatile Salts that...1698, Richard Boulton, A Treatise Concerning the Heat of the Blood and Also of the Use of the Lungs, London: A. & J. Churchill, page 121
   1. A device which causes gas or vapor to be absorbed by a liquid.
   2. (nuclear physics) A material that absorbs neutrons in a reactor.
2. A person who absorbs.
   • Old Lady Dacier’s bluntness in speaking of her grandson would have shocked Lady Wathin as much as it astonished, had she been less of an ardent absorber of aristocratic manners.1885, George Meredith, chapter 12, in Diana of the Crossways, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, pages 272–273
3. A set that, under suitable transformations, can contain any set from a given class within a topological space.
   • By proposition 6.5.4, X is a skeletoid and hence an absorber by theorem 6.5.1.1988, J. van Mill, Infinite-Dimensional Topology: Prerequisites and Introduction, page 285