adsorption
French, noun/at.sɔʁp.sjɔ̃/
adsorption is spelled A-D-S-O-R-P-T-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adsorption is a French feminine noun meaning “adsorption” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pénétration superficielle d’un gaz ou d’un liquide dans un solide ou un liquide”.
What does adsorption mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineadsorption
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pénétration superficielle d’un gaz ou d’un liquide dans un solide ou un liquide. 2. Fixation en surface d’un gaz sur un solide.
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 adsorption
- adsorptions plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adsorption?
- /at.sɔʁp.sjɔ̃/
- \ad.sɔʁp.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adsorption
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adsorption in French?
adsorption appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).