absorption factor

1. 1.

   (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body

   Synonymsabsorptivity

   Broaderphysical property

   physics

Questions about absorption factor

What does absorption factor mean?

absorption factor means "(physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body".

What is another word for absorption factor?

Close synonyms include absorptivity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is absorption factor a common word?

absorption factor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.