saturation
nounEtymology Borrowed from Late Latin saturatio, saturationem.
14 senses
- 1The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
- 2The condition in which, after a sufficient increase in a…
- 3The state of a saturated solution.
- 4The state of an organic compound that has no double or…
- 5The smallest set containing S which is saturated with…
- 6The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with…
- 7The intensity or vividness of a colour.
- 8Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
- 9intense bombing of a military target with the aim of…
- 10The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
- 11An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used…
- 12The condition at which a component of the system has…
- 13The point at which the output of a linear device, such…
- 14A form of arithmetic in which all operations are limited…
Usually The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
- Traffic at Dover Marine has developed far beyond anything envisaged when the station was built. The layout has become rather cramped, and prodigies of organisation are performed annually by all concerned to save complete saturation.1959 October 23, T. W. E. Roche, “Traffic Working at Dover Marine Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 680:
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Usually The condition in which, after a sufficient increase in a causal force, no further increase in the resultant effect is possible; e.g. the state of a ferromagnetic material that cannot be further magnetized.
Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Usually The state of a saturated solution.
Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Usually The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
Mathematics, Sciences, Set theory, Topology Usually, Of a set S The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
With respect to an equivalence relation or function
Climatology, Meteorology, Natural sciences Usually The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
Usually Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
Usually intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.
Usually The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Usually An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
Communications, Electrical engineering, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Telecommunications Usually The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
Communications, Electrical engineering, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Telecommunications Usually The point at which the output of a linear device, such as a linear amplifier, deviates significantly from being a linear function of the input when the input signal is increased.
- Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation.
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Usually A form of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to a fixed range of values. See Saturation arithmetic.
- Packed add with wraparound […] Packed add signed with saturation […] Packed add unsigned with saturation1996, Byte, volume 21, page 60:
- Derived terms
31 terms
antisaturation, chemosaturation, desaturation, episaturation, hypersaturation, monosaturation, nonsaturation, oversaturation, oxygen saturation, peripheral oxygen saturation, photosaturation, postsaturation, predator saturation, presaturation, resaturation, saturation current, saturation dive, saturation diver, saturation diving, saturation patrol, saturation point, saturation temperature, saturation vapor pressure, saturation vapour pressure, semisaturation, subsaturation, supersaturation, suprasaturation, undersaturation, unsaturation, zone of saturation