SORPTION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption)

Classified under:

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

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

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

absorption; soaking up ((chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid)

adsorption; surface assimilation (the accumulation of molecules of a gas to form a thin film on the surface of a solid)

Derivation:

sorb (take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption)