1. The process of totally saturating something with a substance
   "the saturation of cotton with ether"
   - impregnation 
2. The act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid 
3. A condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence 
4. Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
   - chroma, intensity, vividness

Derived forms: saturations

See also: saturate

Type of: color property [US], colour property [Brit, Cdn], condition, filling, permeation, pervasion, status, suffusion

Part of: chromatic color [US], chromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], plastination, spectral color [US], spectral colour [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Saturation

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