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Getter vs Absorbent - What's the difference?

getter | absorbent |

As nouns the difference between getter and absorbent

is that getter is getter while absorbent is anything which absorbs .

As an adjective absorbent is

having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive .

getter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who gets.
  • * 1838 , William Evans, ?Thomas Evans, The Friends' Library
    • rich men and the eager getters of this world
  • (computing, programming) A function used to retrieve the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the setter.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2002 , author=James Steven Perry , title=Java Management Extensions , chapter=2 , isbn=0596002459 , page=47 , passage=A proper getter must return the type of its attribute.}}
  • (sciences) A material which is included in a vacuum system or device for removing gas by sorption.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1979 , author=G. L. Weissler and Robert Warner Carlson , title=Vacuum Physics and Technology , chapter=5 , isbn=0124759149 , pages=194-195 , passage=Titanium has become the preferred getter for general vacuum-pumping applications because of its relatively high vapor pressure characteristic and its broad spectrum chemical reactivity.}}

    Derived terms

    * go-getter * vote getter

    Synonyms

    * (computing) accessor

    See also

    * setter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (sciences) To remove gas by sorption.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2003 , author=John F. O'Hanlon , title=A Users Guide to Vacuum Technology , chapter=14 , isbn=0471270520 , page=247 , passage=Many reactive metals rapidly pump large quantities of active gases because they getter (react with) the gases.}}

    Synonyms

    * get ----

    absorbent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.
    • Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent . That was quite a spill.

    Derived terms

    * absorbent ground * nonabsorbent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything which absorbs.
  • * 1839 , , 1972, Forgotten Books, page 225,
    • In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year is low.
  • (physiology, pluralized, now, rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
  • (medicine) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
  • (chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.

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