saturation

Borrowed from Late Latin saturatio, saturationem.^[1][2]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

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. (mathematics, set theory, topology, of a set ${\displaystyle S}$, with respect to an equivalence relation or function, countable) The smallest set containing ${\displaystyle S}$ which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
7. (meteorology) The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
8. (art) The intensity or vividness of a colour.
9. Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
10. intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.
11. The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
12. (music) An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
13. (telecommunications) The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
14. (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.

• saturate

• hue
• chroma

• autotrains, titanosaur

From Late Latin saturātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /sa.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

saturation f (plural saturations)

1. (chemistry, usually uncountable) saturation

• saturer

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

• autorisant