SORBATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sorbate"):

absorbate (a material that has been or is capable of being absorbed)

adsorbate (a material that has been or is capable of being adsorbed)