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S0100400 (săch′ə-rā′shən)n.1. a. The act or process of saturating.b. The condition of being saturated.c. The condition of being full to or beyond satisfaction; satiety.2. Physics A state of a ferromagnetic substance in which an increase in applied magnetic field strength does not produce an increase in magnetization.3. Chemistry The state of a compound or solution that is fully saturated.4. Meteorology A condition in which air at a specific temperature contains all the water vapor it can hold; 100 percent relative humidity.5. Vividness of hue; degree of difference from a gray of the same lightness or brightness. Also called intensity. See Table at color.6. Intensive shelling or bombing of a military target to achieve total destruction.7. The flooding of a market with all of a commodity that consumers can purchase.

saturation

(ˌsætʃəˈreɪʃən) n1. the act of saturating or the state of being saturated2. (Chemistry) chem the state of a chemical compound, solution, or vapour when it is saturated3. (Physical Geography) meteorol the state of the atmosphere when it can hold no more water vapour at its particular temperature and pressure, the relative humidity then being 100 per cent4. (General Physics) the attribute of a colour that enables an observer to judge its proportion of pure chromatic colour. See also colour5. (General Physics) physics the state of a ferromagnetic material in which it is fully magnetized. The magnetic domains are then all fully aligned6. (Electronics) electronics the state of a valve or semiconductor device that is carrying the maximum current of which it is capable and is therefore unresponsive to further increases of input signal7. (Economics) the level beyond which demand for a product or service is not expected to increasemodifierdenoting the maximum possible intensity of coverage of an area: saturation bombing; a saturation release of a film.

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n. 1. the act or process of saturating. 2. the state of being saturated. 3. a condition in the atmosphere corresponding to 100 percent relative humidity. 4. the degree of chroma or purity of a color; the degree of freedom from admixture with white. 5. the state of maximum magnetization of a ferromagnetic material. [1545–55; < Late Latin saturātiō filling; see saturate, -tion]

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(săch′ə-rā′shən) The vividness of a color's hue. Saturation measures the degree to which a color differs from a gray of the same brightness or lightness. See more at color.

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Noun	1.	saturation - the process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether"impregnationpermeation, pervasion, suffusion - the process of permeating or infusing something with a substanceplastination - a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened; "the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching"
	2.	saturation - the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquidfilling - the act of filling something
	3.	saturation - a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influencecondition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"saturation point - (chemistry) the stage at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution or in a vapor
	4.	saturation - chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in huechroma, vividness, intensitychromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour - a color that has huecolor property - an attribute of color

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saturate

(ˈsӕtʃəreit) verb1. to make very wet. Saturate the earth round the plants. 浸湿，浸透 2. to fill completely. The market has been saturated with paintings like that.饱和satuˈration noun饱和

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of a solution: see solutionsolution,
in chemistry, homogeneous mixture of two or more substances. The dissolving medium is called the solvent, and the dissolved material is called the solute. A solution is distinct from a colloid or a suspension.
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of an organic compound, condition occurring when its molecules contain no double or triple bonds and thus cannot undergo addition reactions. For example, ethane (H₃C-CH₃) is a saturated compound. A compound is called unsaturated if it can undergo addition reactions. In the unsaturated compound ethene (H₂C=CH₂), the carbon-carbon double bond readily reacts, e.g., with hydrogen to form ethane.

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The purity of a hue; the higher the saturation, the purer the color.

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[‚sach·ə′rā·shən] (electronics) The condition that occurs when a transistor is driven so that it becomes biased in the forward direction (the collector becomes positive with respect to the base, for example, in a pnp type of transistor). anode saturation temperature saturation (electromagnetism) magnetic saturation (meteorology) The maximum water vapor per unit volume that a parcel of air can contain at a given temperature. (nucleonics) The condition in which the decay rate of a given radionuclide is equal to its rate of production in an induced nuclear reaction. The condition in which the voltage applied to an ionization chamber is high enough to collect all the ions formed by radiation but not high enough to produce ionization by collision. (optics) color saturation (ordnance) The striking of a target area with such numbers of missiles that no place in it remains untouched by destruction. (physics) The condition in which a further increase in some cause produces no further increase in the resultant effect. The property exhibited by certain forces between particles wherein each particle can interact strongly with only a limited number of other particles, as in the forces between atoms in a molecule, and between nucleons in a nucleus. (physical chemistry) The condition in which the partial pressure of any fluid constituent is equal to its maximum possible partial pressure under the existing environmental conditions, such that any increase in the amount of that constituent will initiate within it a change to a more condensed state.

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1. The condition under which air at a given temperature and pressure holds the maximum amount of water vapor without causing precipitation. 2. The degree of purity of a color. A color is said to be saturated when it contains no white.

saturation

The condition of the atmosphere when the actual water vapor present in the air is the maximum the air can hold at the prevailing temperature (i.e., the relative humidity is 100%).

saturation

1. Chem the state of a chemical compound, solution, or vapour when it is saturated 2. Meteorol the state of the atmosphere when it can hold no more water vapour at its particular temperature and pressure, the relative humidity then being 100 per cent 3. the attribute of a colour that enables an observer to judge its proportion of pure chromatic colour 4. Physics the state of a ferromagnetic material in which it is fully magnetized. The magnetic domains are then all fully aligned 5. Electronics the state of a valve or semiconductor device that is carrying the maximum current of which it is capable and is therefore unresponsive to further increases of input signal 6. the level beyond which demand for a product or service is not expected to increase

saturation

(1) On magnetic media, a condition in which the magnetizable particles are completely aligned and a more powerful writing signal will not improve the reading back.

(2) In a bipolar transistor, a condition in which the current on the gate (the trigger) is equal to or greater than what is necessary to close the switch.

(3) In a diode, a condition in which the diode is fully conducting.

(4) In a color, the amount of pure pigment it contains. For example, a fully saturated red would be pure red. The less saturated, the more pastel the appearance. See HSB, HSL, chroma, luminance and hue.

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noun the process of totally saturating something with a substance

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noun the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid

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noun a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence

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noun chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue

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