North American Edition The dollar took a spill during the Asia session after the WSJ published an interview with Trump, who said that the dollar is getting too strong.. The narrow USD index tipped to a two-week low near 100.00 as a consequence. USD-JPY hit a four-month ... Read More â¶. 2017-04-13 11:02 UTC.
They're essentially synonymous: Proclivity is 'leaning to', propensity is 'nearness to' and predilection is 'preference for'. Worry about something more significant like the misuse of the words irony and disinterest or the mispronunciation of the the words route and forte.
absorptivity. n. 1. (General Physics) physics a measure of the ability of a material to absorb radiation, equal to the internal absorptance of a homogeneous layer of the material under conditions in which the path of the radiation has unit length and the boundaries of the layer have no influence.