imbibition : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: imbibition	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for imbibition
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
imbibition n (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel the act of consuming liquids Synonym(s): drinking, imbibing, imbibition
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Imbibition \Im`bibi"tion\, n. [Cf. F. imbibition.] The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition* of poisons. --Bacon.