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saturation.

The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.

    uncountable · usually
  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.

    uncountable · usually
  3. The state of a saturated solution.

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  4. The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.

    uncountable · usually
  5. The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.

    countable · usually
  6. The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.

    uncountable · usually
  7. The intensity or vividness of a colour.

    uncountable · usually
  8. Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.

    uncountable · usually
  9. intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.

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  10. The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.

    uncountable · usually
  11. An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.

    uncountable · usually
  12. The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.

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  13. 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.

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    Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation.
  14. A form of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to a fixed range of values. See Saturation arithmetic.

    uncountable · usually
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Late Latin saturatio, saturationem.

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