absorbance
French, noun/ap.sɔʁ.bɑ̃s/
absorbance is spelled A-B-S-O-R-B-A-N-C-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 170,198th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Absorbance is a French feminine noun meaning “the fact of being absorbent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grandeur logarithmique exprimant la quantité de lumière absorbée par un échantillon lorsqu’un rayonnement le…”.
What does absorbance mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininethe fact of being absorbent
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Grandeur logarithmique exprimant la quantité de lumière absorbée par un échantillon lorsqu’un rayonnement le traverse, généralement mesurée en spectrophotométrie pour déterminer une concentration.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of absorbance
- absorbances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce absorbance?
- /ap.sɔʁ.bɑ̃s/
- \ap.sɔʁ.bɑ̃s\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to absorbance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is absorbance in French?
absorbance appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).