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self-abˈsorption
1. [self- 3 a.] Absorption in one's own emotions, interests, or situation; self-preoccupation.
1862Lytton Str. Story I. 131 That self-absorption which the habit of reverie had fostered. a1930D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 94 The lovely and self-absorbed girl Looked back at the handsome and self-absorbed young man And thrilled. And in that thrill he felt: Her self⁓absorption is even as strong as mine. 1979V. S. Naipaul Bend in River xi. 188, I did not wish to lose myself in the..self-absorption of that fantasy.
2. Physics. [self- 2 b.] Absorption of radiation by the material emitting it. Cf. self-shielding vbl. n.
1938Proc. Cambr. Philos. Soc. XXXIV. 600 With radium E, strong sources may be obtained showing negligible self-absorption. 1950Atomics Nov. 334/2 The self-absorption of β-rays in radioactive films..has been investigated. 1978H. H. Bauer et al. Instrumental Analysis x. 265 At too high a current, Doppler broadening and self-absorption (absorption of part of the emitted radiation by the dense cloud of atoms in the source itself) will occur. |