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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To take up by adsorption.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To gather (a gas or liquid) on the surface in a condensed layer. Thus solids, such as glass, gather gases and liquids with which they are in contact.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive, chemistry To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. to attract and bind (molecules of a substance in a fluid) so as to form a thin layer on the surface, by non-electrostatic forces; to bind by adsorption. Distinguished from absorb, in which the foreign substance penetrates the body of the absorbing material.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface

Etymologies

  1. From French, from Latin ad- ("to"), + sorbere ("suck in"). (Wiktionary)
  2. ad- + Latin sorbēre, to suck. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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