saturation

Meanings

Plural: saturations

Noun

• the process of totally saturating something with a substance
  • "the saturation of cotton with ether"
• the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid
• a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence
• chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
• The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
• 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.
• The state of a saturated solution.
• The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
• The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
• The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
• The intensity or vividness of a colour.
• Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
• intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.
• The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
• An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
• The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
• 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.

Synonyms

chroma, impregnation, intensity, vividness

Related Words

chroma, hue, saturate