the process or action by which one thing absorbs or is absorbed by another
(被)吸收;(被)合并
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East Germany's absorption into West Germany 东德并入西德
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shock absorption .减震。
 
the fact or state of being engrossed in something
被吸引;全神贯注
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her absorption in the problems of the Third World .她对第三世界问题的专注。
 
"late 16th cent. (in the sense the ‘swallowing up of something’):  from Latin 
