Usually means: Capable of taking in substances.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word absorptive:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. absorptive: Merriam-Webster
  2. absorptive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. absorptive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. absorptive: Vocabulary.com
  5. absorptive: Wordnik
  6. absorptive: Wiktionary
  7. absorptive: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. absorptive: Dictionary.com
  9. Absorptive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. absorptive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. absorptive: Rhymezone
  12. Absorptive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. absorptive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. absorptive: FreeDictionary.org
  15. absorptive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Absorptive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. absorptive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. absorptive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absorptive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. absorptive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. absorptive: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absorptive: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See absorption as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (absorptive)

adjective:  Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
noun:  Any substance that absorbs.

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