单词 | saturation |
释义 | saturation (once / 9681 pages) 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 FAMILYsaturation: saturations+/saturate: saturated, saturates, saturating, saturation/saturated: saturatedly, supersaturated, unsaturated USAGE EXAMPLESFor 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 pointthe 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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