saturation

Noun

 * 1) The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
 * 2)  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)  The state of a saturated solution.
 * 4)  The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
 * 5)  The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
 * 6)  The intensity or vividness of a colour.
 * 7) Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
 * 8) intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.
 * 9) The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
 * 10)  An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
 * 11)  The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
 * 12)  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.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 飽和
 * Hokkien: 飽和
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: saturaatio,
 * French:
 * Georgian: გაჯერება
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: metning
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 飽和
 * Hokkien: 飽和
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: kyllästyminen, saturaatio
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 飽和
 * Hokkien: 飽和
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: saturaatio
 * French:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: metning
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 飽和
 * Hokkien: 飽和
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: tyydyttyminen
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 飽和
 * Hokkien: 飽和
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: metning
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: metning
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish: saturaatioefekti, saturaatio
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:


 * German:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Swedish:

Etymology
From.