Usually means: Spectral line representing light absorption.
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  1. absorption line: Merriam-Webster
  2. absorption line: Wiktionary
  3. Absorption line: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. absorption line: Merriam-Webster

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  1. absorption line: Encyclopedia

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
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  3. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (absorption line)

noun:  (physics, astronomy) A spectral line that corresponds to the absorption of electromagnetic radiation at a specific wavelength; the pattern of such lines is characteristic of specific atoms or molecules in the path of the radiation.

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