English Explanatory Dictionary

saturation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
  2. The condition in which, after a sufficient increase in a causal force, no further increase in the resultant effect is possible; e.g. the state of a ferromagnetic material that cannot be further magnetized.
  3. The state of a saturated solution.
  4. The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
  5. The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
  6. The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
  7. The intensity or vividness of a colour.
  8. Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
  9. intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.
  10. The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
  11. An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
  12. The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

saturation saturations

Etymology

Etymology tree Late Latin saturatiobor. English saturation Borrowed from Late Latin saturatio, saturationem.

Related words

saturate hue chroma

Derived words

antisaturation chemosaturation desaturation episaturation hypersaturation monosaturation nonsaturation oversaturation oxygen saturation peripheral oxygen saturation photosaturation postsaturation predator saturation presaturation resaturation saturation current saturation dive saturation diver saturation diving saturation patrol saturation point saturation temperature saturation vapor pressure saturation vapour pressure semisaturation subsaturation supersaturation suprasaturation undersaturation unsaturation zone of saturation

Translations

Bulgarian: наситеност Chinese Cantonese: 飽和 /饱和 Chinese: 飽和 /饱和 Chinese Mandarin: 飽和 /饱和 Finnish: kylläisyys Japanese: 飽和 Korean: 포화
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