saturated
saturated is the simple past and past participle of saturate.
Adjective
saturated (comparative more saturated, superlative most saturated)
- Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
- Synonyms:
- impregnate
- Soaked or drenched with moisture.
- Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
- Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
- Equal to a union of equivalence classes of ≡; such that if x∈S and x≡y then y∈S.
- Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y) (the kernel, noun sense 10, of f).
- Conforming to saturation arithmetic.
- a saturated value
- Having a high level of saturation (in various senses).
- a saturated image
Meaning of saturate
Verb
saturate (third-person singular simple present saturates, present participle saturating, simple past and past participle saturated)
- To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
- Rain saturated their clothes.
- Synonyms:
- drench, impregnate, soak
- To fill thoroughly or to excess.
- Modern television is saturated with violence.
- To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
- One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
- To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.
Noun
saturated (plural saturateds)
- A saturated hydrocarbon.
- Thus, in Fig. 12, if it is assumed that the illuminants are chiefly ethylene and the saturateds largely methane it can be seen that the normal formation of ethylene is […]1916, Eugene Hendricks Leslie, The Decomposition of Hydrocarbons and the Influence of Hydrogen in Carbureted Water Gas Manufacture, page 73
Synonyms of saturated
Forms of saturated
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more saturated |
| superlative | most saturated |
| Noun | |
| plural | saturateds |
Words formed from saturated
- disaturated
- hypersaturated
- isosaturated
- monosaturated
- monounsaturated
- nonsaturated
- polysaturated
- polyunsaturated
- saturated fat
- saturated fatty acid
- saturatedly
- saturatedness
- saturated solution
- saturated steam
- saturated vapor pressure
- saturated zone
- semisaturated
- subsaturated
- supersaturated
- trisaturated
- undersaturated
- unsaturated
Phrases with saturated
Questions about saturated
- What does saturated mean?
- Saturated means full; unable to hold or contain any more.
- What is saturated the simple past and past participle of?
- Saturated is the simple past and past participle of saturate.
- What part of speech is saturated?
- Saturated can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near saturated in the dictionary
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