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saturation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin saturatio, saturationem.

Meanings

(uncountable, usually) The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
- 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. 1959 October 14, T. W. E. Roche, “Traffic Working at Dover Marine Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 680:
(uncountable, usually) 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.
(uncountable, usually) The state of a saturated solution.
(uncountable, usually) The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
(countable, of a set S, usually, with respect to an equivalence relation or function) The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
(uncountable, usually) The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
(uncountable, usually) The intensity or vividness of a colour.
(uncountable, usually) Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
(uncountable, usually) intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.
(uncountable, usually) The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
(uncountable, usually) An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
(uncountable, usually) The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
(uncountable, usually) The point at which the output of a linear device, such as a linear amplifier, deviates significantly from being a linear function of the input when the input signal is increased.
- Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation.
(uncountable, usually) A form of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to a fixed range of values. See Saturation arithmetic.
- Packed add with wraparound […] Packed add signed with saturation […] Packed add unsigned with saturation 1996, Byte, volume 21, page 60:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
saturations	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Deriveds

chroma · hue · saturate

Translations (85)

nan-hbl 飽和 /饱和 (state of 100% humidity) · es saturación (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · nb metning (flooding of market) · pl nasycenie (flooding of market) · nb metning (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · pt saturação (vividness of color) · nb metning (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · pl nasycenie (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · ru насыще́ние (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · de Sättigung (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · pl saturacja (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · sv mättnad (vividness of color) · pl nasycanie (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · yue 飽和 /饱和 (condition in which no increase in effect is possible) · es pureza (vividness of color) · yue 飽和 /饱和 (state of 100% humidity) · cmn 飽和 /饱和 (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · nan-hbl 飽和 /饱和 (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · ka გაჯერება (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · nan-hbl 飽和 /饱和 (condition in which no increase in effect is possible) · es saturación (vividness of color) · bg пресищане (condition in which no increase in effect is possible) · bg наситеност (vividness of color) · ru сатура́ция (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · fi kyllästäminen (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · ko 포화 (condition in which no increase in effect is possible) · pl przemoknięcie (state of 100% humidity) · fi kyllästäminen (flooding of market) · ja 飽和 (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · ko 포화 (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · yue 飽和 /饱和 (organic chemistry: state with no double or triple bonds) · cmn 飽和 /饱和 (state of 100% humidity) · hu telítettség (vividness of color) · pl nasycenie (organic chemistry: state with no double or triple bonds) · bg наситеност (state of 100% humidity) · nan-hbl 飽和 /饱和 (organic chemistry: state with no double or triple bonds) · pl nasycenie (vividness of color) · ko 포화 (organic chemistry: state with no double or triple bonds) · pt saturação (musical effect) · nl verzadiging (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · ja 飽和 (organic chemistry: state with no double or triple bonds) · fi kylläisyys (state of 100% humidity) · ja 飽和 (state of 100% humidity) · fi tyydyttyminen (organic chemistry: state with no double or triple bonds) · nb metning (vividness of color) · sv mättning (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · fr saturation (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · pt saturação (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · ja 飽和 (condition in which no increase in effect is possible) · fi saturaatio (musical effect) · it saturazione (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · nan-hbl 飽和 /饱和 (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · bg наситеност (organic chemistry: state with no double or triple bonds) · pl saturacja (musical effect) · ja 飽和 (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · cmn 飽和 /饱和 (organic chemistry: state with no double or triple bonds) · pl saturacja (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · pl saturacja (condition in which no increase in effect is possible) · pt saturação (flooding of market) · ka გაჯერებულობა (vividness of color) · fi saturaatioefekti (musical effect) · pl nasycenie (condition in which no increase in effect is possible) · pl saturacja (organic chemistry: state with no double or triple bonds) · fr saturation (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · es saturación (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · ko 포화 (state of 100% humidity) · pl saturacja (flooding of market) · yue 飽和 /饱和 (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · sv mättnad (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · ru насыще́ние (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · fi kyllästyminen (condition in which no increase in effect is possible) · pt saturação (condition in which no increase in effect is possible) · bg насищане (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · fi saturaatio (condition in which no increase in effect is possible) · cmn 飽和 /饱和 (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · pl saturacja (vividness of color) · fi saturaatio (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · ko 포화 (the act of saturating or the process of being saturated) · bg наситеност (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · fi saturaatio (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · fi värikylläisyys (vividness of color) · yue 飽和 /饱和 (chemistry: state of a saturated solution) · cmn 飽和 /饱和 (condition in which no increase in effect is possible) · pt saturação (organic chemistry: state with no double or triple bonds) · pt saturação (chemistry: state of a saturated solution)