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Saturation   /sˌætʃərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Saturation

noun
1.
The process of totally saturating something with a substance.  Synonym: impregnation.  "The saturation of cotton with ether"
2.
The act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid.
3.
A condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence.
4.
Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue.  Synonyms: chroma, intensity, vividness.



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"Saturation" Quotes from Famous Books



... resumed the Philosopher, "as one who should imply that the probability of even a complete saturation ought to appal a ratiocinative being, endowed with wisdom and virtue. I rather designed to direct your attention to the inquiry whether these attributes are, in fact, rightly ...
— The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales • Richard Garnett
... gentlemen,' he said, speaking with the deep sonorousness which comes of long saturation of the vocal cords with undiluted spirits, 'I think one or two of these faces are new to ...
— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter
... air for holding it in the gaseous condition. Thus, when the dew-point temperature has been determined, the pressure of water vapour in the atmosphere at the time of the deposit is given by reference to a table of saturation pressures of water vapour at different temperatures. As it is a well-established proposition that the pressure of the water vapour in the air does not vary while the air is being cooled without change of its ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 - "Destructors" to "Diameter" • Various
... saturation of the blood-mass with the remedy is obviously, then, the principal thing; the greater the amount of blood, the more remedy—everything else being equal—we shall have to give in order to obtain ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 822 - Volume XXXII, Number 822. Issue Date October 3, 1891 • Various
... ever to return to this subject. There is a point of mental saturation, beyond which argument cannot be forced without breeding impatient, if not harsh, feelings towards those who refuse to be convinced. If I have so far manifested neither, it is well to stop here, and leave the rest to those younger friends who may have ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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