(1) The combination of two or more entities, rights, or other things into a single whole, especially the absorption of the minor entities, rights, or things into the largest of them. (2) The combining of two or more corporations into one, with one of them absorbing the others into itself. (3) The absorption of one estate into another when one person comes into possession of both of them. (4) Sentencing a person convicted of two or more crimes for only one of them. (5) After a plaintiff receiv...