Definition of "absorber" in English

noun

1. Something that absorbs.

   • 1756, Thomas Amory, The Life of John Buncle, Esq., London: J. Noon, Chapter 36 “Remarks on the delluge,” p. , The swallows especially must do great work in the case, if we take into their number not only very many open gulphs or chasms, the depth of which no line or sound can reach; but likewise the communications of very many parts of the sea, and of many great unfathomable lochs, with the abyss. These absorbers could easily receive what had before come out of them.

2. A person who absorbs.

3. (topology) A set that, under suitable transformations, can contain any set from a given class within a topological space.