saturation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Late Latin saturatiobor.
English saturation
Borrowed from Late Latin saturatio, saturationem.
Inflected forms:
form: saturations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of a saturated solution.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The intensity or vividness of a colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation.
gloss: A form of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to a fixed range of values. See Saturation arithmetic.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Packed add with wraparound […] Packed add signed with saturation […] Packed add unsigned with saturation
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:
lang: Bulgarian
word: наситеност
roman: nasitenost
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 飽和 /饱和
roman: baau² wo⁴
lang: Chinese
word: 飽和 /饱和
roman: páu-hô
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 飽和 /饱和
roman: bǎohé
lang: Finnish
word: kylläisyys
lang: Japanese
word: 飽和
roman: hōwa
lang: Korean
word: 포화
roman: pohwa