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单词 saturation point
释义 saturation point
noun
: the point at which saturation is reached: as
 a.
  (1) : the limit of response to desire or stimulus
   < killing … reaches a saturation point when the hunter ceases to want to hunt — Nature Magazine >
   < the boy has reached the saturation point and does not respond to the training school program any longer — Erwin Schepses >
  (2) : the maximum level of provocation or of injurious effect
   < the mother … reached a saturation point with the screaming child — Jessie Chamberlin >
   < a person has … reached the saturation point of aging between 70 and 80 and, from there on, he will age only very slowly — Martin Gumpert >
 b. : a limit of acceptance
  < imigration … has not reached a saturation point — D.D.McKean >
 specifically : the point in a flow of goods or money at which the market will take no more except at a decrease in price
  < houses will be built until the saturation point is reached — Brendon Shea >
 c. : the maximum degree of impregnation; specifically : dew point
 d. : the maximum number of a kind of organism that can be carried on a particular range under optimum conditions — compare carrying capacity
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