nonabsorbing

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adjective

That does not absorb (sound, radiation, fluid etc.)

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivenonabsorbing (comparative more nonabsorbing, superlative most nonabsorbing)

comparative more nonabsorbing · superlative most nonabsorbing

  1. That does not absorb (sound, radiation, fluid etc.)

    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
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    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

    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
  2. mathematicsThat 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
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    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

    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

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