absorption loss

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absorption loss [əb′sȯrp·shən ‚lȯs]

(civil engineering)

The quantity of water that is lost during the initial filling of a reservoir because of absorption by soil and rocks.

(communications)

That part of the transmission loss due to the dissipation or conversion of either sound energy or electromagnetic energy into other forms of energy, either within the medium or attendant upon a reflection.

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