• Soaking up
• Complete attention
• The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
• Intense mental effort
• The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
• A fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid
• The mental state of being preoccupied by something
• (chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another
• (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium