saturation

See also: Saturation

English

Noun

saturation (usually uncountable, plural saturations)

1. The act of saturating or the process of being saturated
2. (physics) 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
4. (chemistry) The state of a saturated solution
5. (chemistry) The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds
6. (meteorology) The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity
7. (art) The intensity or vividness of a colour.
8. Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
9. intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it
10. The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold
11. (music) An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music
12. (telecommunications) The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
13. (telecommunications) 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.

Derived terms

• antisaturation
• desaturation
• oversaturation
• oxygen saturation
• peripheral oxygen saturation
• postsaturation
• presaturation
• resaturation
• saturation current
• saturation dive
• saturation diver
• saturation diving
• saturation patrol
• saturation point
• saturation temperature
• saturation vapor pressure
• saturation vapour pressure
• subsaturation
• supersaturation
• suprasaturation
• undersaturation
• unsaturation

 

Related terms

• saturate

Translations

the act of saturating or the process of being saturated

• Bulgarian: насищане (bg) n (nasištane)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 飽和／饱和 (baau² wo⁴)

  Hokkien: 飽和／饱和 (páu-hô)

  Mandarin: 飽和／饱和 (zh) (bǎohé)

• Dutch: verzadiging (nl)
• Finnish: saturaatio, kyllästäminen (fi)
• French: saturation (fr) f
• Georgian: გაჯერება (gaǯereba)
• German: Sättigung (de) f
• Italian: saturazione (it) f
• Japanese: 飽和 (ja) (ほうわ, hōwa)
• Korean: 포화(飽和) (ko) (pohwa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: metning m or f

• Polish: saturacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: saturação (pt) f
• Russian: насыще́ние (ru) n (nasyščénije), сатура́ция (ru) f (saturácija)
• Spanish: saturación (es) f
• Swedish: mättnad (sv), mättning (sv) c

condition in which no increase in effect is possible

• Bulgarian: пресищане (bg) n (presištane)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 飽和／饱和 (baau² wo⁴)

  Hokkien: 飽和／饱和 (páu-hô)

  Mandarin: 飽和／饱和 (zh) (bǎohé)

• Finnish: kyllästyminen, saturaatio
• Japanese: 飽和 (ja) (ほうわ, hōwa)
• Korean: 포화(飽和) (ko) (pohwa)
• Portuguese: saturação (pt) f

chemistry: state of a saturated solution

• Bulgarian: наситеност (bg) f (nasitenost)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 飽和／饱和 (baau² wo⁴)

  Hokkien: 飽和／饱和 (páu-hô)

  Mandarin: 飽和／饱和 (zh) (bǎohé)

• Finnish: saturaatio
• French: saturation (fr) f
• Japanese: 飽和 (ja) (ほうわ, hōwa)
• Korean: 포화(飽和) (ko) (pohwa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: metning m or f

• Polish: nasycenie (pl) n, saturacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: saturação (pt) f
• Russian: насыще́ние (ru) n (nasyščénije)
• Spanish: saturación (es) f

organic chemistry: state with no double or triple bonds

• Bulgarian: наситеност (bg) f (nasitenost)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 飽和／饱和 (baau² wo⁴)

  Hokkien: 飽和／饱和 (páu-hô)

  Mandarin: 飽和／饱和 (zh) (bǎohé)

• Finnish: tyydyttyminen
• Japanese: 飽和 (ja) (ほうわ, hōwa)
• Korean: 포화(飽和) (ko) (pohwa)
• Portuguese: saturação (pt) f

state of 100% humidity

• Bulgarian: наситеност (bg) f (nasitenost)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 飽和／饱和 (baau² wo⁴)

  Hokkien: 飽和／饱和 (páu-hô)

  Mandarin: 飽和／饱和 (zh) (bǎohé)

• Finnish: kylläisyys (fi)
• Japanese: 飽和 (ja) (ほうわ, hōwa)
• Korean: 포화(飽和) (ko) (pohwa)

vividness of color

• Bulgarian: наситеност (bg) f (nasitenost)
• Finnish: värikylläisyys (fi)
• Hungarian: telítettség (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: metning m or f

• Polish: saturacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: saturação (pt) f
• Spanish: saturación (es) f, pureza (es) f
• Swedish: mättnad (sv) c

flooding of market

• Finnish: kyllästäminen (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: metning m or f

• Portuguese: saturação (pt) f

musical effect

• Finnish: saturaatioefekti, saturaatio
• Polish: saturacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: saturação (pt) f

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Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Sättigung (de) f
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} zasićénje n
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} mättnad (sv)

See also

• hue
• chroma

Anagrams

• autotrains, titanosaur

French

Etymology

From Late Latin saturātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

saturation f (plural saturations)

1. (chemistry, usually uncountable) saturation

Related terms

• saturer

Further reading

• “saturation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• autorisant