Saturation

Quick meaning: Saturation is a noun meaning The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.

Meaning

The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.

More Meanings

1. (chemistry) The state of a saturated solution.
2. (chemistry) The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
3. (meteorology) The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
4. (art) The intensity or vividness of a colour.
5. Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
6. (physics) 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.
7. (mathematics, set theory, topology, of a set S, with respect to an equivalence relation or function, countable) The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.

Example Sentences

Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation.

Packed add with wraparound […] Packed add signed with saturation […] Packed add unsigned with saturation

Traffic at Dover Marine has developed far beyond anything envisaged when the station was built. The layout has become rather cramped, and prodigies of organisation are performed annually by all concerned to save complete saturation.

Word Forms

• saturations

Synonyms for saturation

Depending on context, synonyms include intensity, vividness, chroma, permeation, impregnation, suffusion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include permeation, chroma, suffusion, impregnation, pervasion, intensity.

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