nonabsorbing

That does not absorb (sound, radiation, fluid etc.)

Equation 2 applies only to the case of a dielectric nonabsorbing particle and unpolarized incident radiation.

Another simple, but practically important, case is one of the nonabsorbing film of thickness d₁ on the absorbing film of thickness d₂ over a nonabsorbing substrate.

That permits a transition to a different state.

To interprest the results given by the fundamental matrix, recall that the nonabsorbing states are states 3 and 4.

A matrix C where C = NR determines the probability that the chain will enter a particular absorbing state having begun in a given nonabsorbing state.