energy-absorbing
Adjective
Meaning
(of a nuclear reaction) occurring with absorption of energy
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Examples
If not sufficient to kill a man in plate armour outright - so long as he is protected by thick and substantial energy-absorbing intermediate layers - would have a severe, possibly fatal, blunt trauma effect.
In all passenger cars and light trucks sold in the U.S., energy-absorbing steering columns are designed to collapse in the event of occupant contact in a frontal collision, reducing the potential head and chest injuries to the driver.
The 1998 Frontier is designed with hood buckling creases, front crumple zone, pipe-style side-door guard beams, energy-absorbing steering column and 3-point ALR/ELR seat belt system (front passenger only).
Elements heavier than iron are made in energy-absorbing processes in large stars, and their abundance in the universe (and on Earth) generally decreases with their atomic number.
Safety cage Rover racing cars in the 1950s pioneered the safety cage or roll cage that was the to energy-absorbing vehicle structures that allow people to walk away from violent, high-speed crashes today, Goddard said.
There are energy-absorbing landing seats to increase survival ability for crews in case of hard landing.