While near Mexico, the system interacted with and eventually absorbed several areas of disturbed weather.

During such a transition, a system either absorbs or releases a fixed (and typically large) amount of energy.

"I don't know how the system will absorb the impact of the baby boom in the next 10 years," he said.

You see, my system can't absorb calcium and the bones are slowly dissolving.

Coming down a steep hill, the system can absorb momentum and turn it back into electricity.

The stepping-disc system can absorb only a limited kinetic energy difference.

By 1916 the combined system had become stable and was absorbing other, smaller railroads.

We tried it, but his system had absorbed whatever they used.

Heck, middle-class parents have more kids than the system can absorb into the middle class.

"The system could not absorb the number of departures now scheduled at Newark," she said.