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Light absorption
Absorption generally refers to the taking in of a substance or radiation into an absorbing substance or body. In the case of light absorption, the transmission of a light wave is attenuated by a substance or body. Further attenuating effects due to scattering or reflection, together with those of the absorption, are combined in optics terminology under the term extinction, or absorbency.