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单词 saturation
释义
saturation
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n

Saturation means holding as much moisture as possible. When you water your houseplants, you may soak them until the soil around each plant reaches saturation.
The noun saturation means the act of completely soaking something until it's absorbed as much water as it can. Imagine a sponge that can't get any more wet, and you'll have an idea of what saturation means. When you're talking about art, saturation means the amount of bright, undiluted color in a painting or photograph, usually colors that are quite intense and unshaded. The Latin root saturatus means "to fill, sate, or drench."
WORD FAMILY
saturation: saturations+/saturate: saturated, saturates, saturating, saturation/saturated: saturatedly, supersaturated, unsaturated
USAGE EXAMPLES
For sheer saturation, there is no greater laboratory for the concept than San Diego.
Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016)
State police will be conducting sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols in all of the state’s 33 counties next month.
Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016)
But many consumers reach pumpkin saturation by Thanksgiving.
Wall Street Journal(Dec 21, 2016)
1n the process of totally saturating something with a substance
the saturation of cotton with ether
Syn|Hyper
impregnation
permeation, pervasion, suffusion
the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
2n the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid
Hyper
filling
the act of filling something
3n a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence
Hypo|Hyper
saturation point
(chemistry) the stage at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution or in a vapor
dew point
the temperature at which the water vapor in the air becomes saturated and condensation begins
condition, status
a state at a particular time
4n chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
Syn|Hyper
chroma, intensity, vividness
color property
an attribute of color
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