See Also: absorbency(medicine)

tavern (iou) and absorbency (medicine)


tavern (iou)



tavern noun & verb. ME.
[Old & mod. French taverne from Latin taberna hut, tavern. In sense B.1 repr. medieval Latin tabernare.]
A. noun.
An inn, a public house. arch. ME.
A shop or workshop attached to or under a house; a cellar. Long dial. rare. E16-E20.
Comb.: tavern-keeper a person who manages and owns a tavern.
b. verb. rare. Chiefly as taverning verbal noun.
verb trans. Of a leaseholder or copyholder: subdivide (a holding), esp. by erecting a building and apportioning land to it. M-L16.
verb intrans. Frequent taverns. L16.
verb intrans. Keep a tavern, be a tavern-keeper. Only in L18.

absorbency (medicine)


absorbency -->
absorbance


1. <chemistry, investigation> Absorbance is defined as a logarithmic function of the percent transmission of a wavelength of light through a liquid.

2. <microbiology> This can be used as a measure of the amount of light absorbed by a suspension of bacterial cells or a solution of an organic molecule, it is measured by a colourimeter or spectrophotometer.

Absorbance values are used to plot the growth of bacteria in suspension cultures and to gauge the purity and concentration of molecules (such as proteins) in solution.

See: absorption.