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How to pronounce imbibition in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms drinking, imbibing
Type of uptake, consumption, ingestion, intake
Has types potation, guzzling, swilling, gulping
Derivation imbibe
Type Words
Type of absorption, soaking up
Derivation imbibe

Examples of imbibition

imbibition
There will be no perspiration, but there will be imbibition.
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Technicolor continued to offer the dye-imbibition print process for projection prints until 1975, and even briefly revived it in 1998.
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Technicolor further refined the imbibition dye transfer process in its Process 4, introduced in 1932, which employed three simultaneously filmed negatives.
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The rate of imbibition is dependent on the permeability of the seed coat, amount of water in the environment and the area of contact the seed has to the source of water.
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  • (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel
  • Drinking: the act of consuming liquids
  • Imbibition is defined as the displacement of one fluid by another immiscible fluid. This process is controlled and affected by a variety of factors. The capillary number (Ca) and the mobility ratio (M) have the greatest importance. ...
  • The act of imbibing
  • (Imbibitions) Liquid holding capacity of a fabric.
  • Uptake of water by a substance that does not dissolve in water (tends to produce swelling).
  • N: the act or process of imbibing or absorbing. In dentistry, an example is the dimensional change caused in hydrocolloid impression materials if they are stored in water
  • To soak or saturate with a liquid.