saturations

Noun

saturation (usually uncountable, plural saturations)

1. (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, T. W. E. Roche, “Traffic Working at Dover Marine Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 680
2. (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.
3. (usually) The state of a saturated solution.
4. (usually) The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
5. (countable, usually) The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
6. (usually) The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.

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