nonabsorbing

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ absorbing.

Adjective

nonabsorbing (comparative more nonabsorbing, superlative most nonabsorbing)

That does not absorb (sound, radiation, fluid etc.)
- 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:
  Equation 2 applies only to the case of a dielectric nonabsorbing particle and unpolarized incident radiation.
- 2012, Milan Milosevic, Internal Reflection and ATR Spectroscopy:
  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.
- 2016, John H. Seinfeld, Spyros N. Pandis, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, page 977:
  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.
(mathematics) That permits a transition to a different state.
- 1991, Robert E. Markland, Topics in Management Science, page 553:
  To interprest the results given by the fundamental matrix, recall that the nonabsorbing states are states 3 and 4.
- 2015, Carla C. Morris, Robert M. Stark, Finite Mathematics: Models and Applications, page 307:
  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.
- 2020, Matthew A. Carlton, Jay L. Devore, Probability with STEM Applications, page 453:
  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.