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nonabsorbing en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + absorbing.

Meanings

1. That does not absorb (sound, radiation, fluid etc.)
   • The aerosol layer scattering model can be simplified if a nonabsorbing aerosol, that is, ω = 1, is considered and account is taken of the fact that the optical depth for most tropospheric conditions is usually about 0.1 or smaller, thereby allowing one to assume τ « 1. 2016, John H. Seinfeld, Spyros N. Pandis, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, page 977:
   • Another simple, but practically important, case is one of the nonabsorbing film of thickness d₁ on the absorbing film of thickness d₂ over a nonabsorbing substrate. 2012, Milan Milosevic, Internal Reflection and ATR Spectroscopy:
   • Equation 2 applies only to the case of a dielectric nonabsorbing particle and unpolarized incident radiation. 2001, Jill M. Olinger, Peter R. Griffiths, Thorsten Burger, “Theory of Diffuse Reflection in the NIR Region”, in Donald A. Burns, Emil W. Ciurczak, editor, Handbook of Near-Infrared Analysis, page 42:
2. That permits a transition to a different state.
   • To interprest the results given by the fundamental matrix, recall that the nonabsorbing states are states 3 and 4. 1991, Robert E. Markland, Topics in Management Science, page 553:
   • Starting in a nonabsorbing state i, the chain will eventually be absorbed into absorbing state a if either (1) the chain transitions immediately into ''a, or (2) the chain transitions into any nonabsorbing state and then eventually is absorbed into state a. 2020, Matthew A. Carlton, Jay L. Devore, Probability with STEM Applications, page 453:
   • A matrix C where C = NR determines the probability that the chain will enter a particular absorbing state having begun in a given nonabsorbing state. 2015, Carla C. Morris, Robert M. Stark, Finite Mathematics: Models and Applications, page 307:

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