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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption); 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sorption
    n 1: the process in which one substance takes up or holds
         another (by either absorption or adsorption)


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "sorption":
   absorbency, absorbent, absorption, adsorbent, adsorption,
   assimilation, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, chemisorption,
   chemosorption, digestion, endosmosis, engrossment, exosmosis,
   infiltration, osmosis, percolation, seepage, sponge, sponging