Saturation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Saturation \Sat`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. saturatio: cf. F.
     saturation.]
     1. The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating;
        complete penetration or impregnation.
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     2. (Chem.) The act, process, or result of saturating a
        substance, or of combining it to its fullest extent.
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     3. (Optics) Freedom from mixture or dilution with white;
        purity; -- said of colors.
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     Note: The degree of saturation of a color is its relative
           purity, or freedom from admixture with white.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  saturation
       n 1: the process of totally saturating something with a
            substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative";
            "the saturation of cotton with ether" [syn: {impregnation}]
       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
          vividness of hue [syn: {chroma}, {intensity}, {vividness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "saturation":
     Munsell chroma, Technicolor, amplitude, bellyful, brewing,
     bright color, brightness, brilliance, chroma, chromatic color,
     chromaticity, color, color quality, colorfulness,
     colorimetric quality, congestion, cool color, decoction, drench,
     drenching, ducking, dunking, engorgement, fill, flood tide, full,
     fullness, gaiety, glut, gorgeousness, high tide, high water, hue,
     hyperemia, imbruement, imbuement, impletion, impregnation,
     infiltration, infusion, injection, instillation, instillment,
     intensity, interpenetration, leaching, lightness, lixiviation,
     maceration, marination, more than enough, neutral color,
     overbrimming, overburden, overcharge, overflow, overfreight,
     overfullness, overload, overspill, overweight, penetration,
     percolation, permeation, pervasion, plenitude, plethora, pulping,
     pure color, purity, repletion, richness, satiation, satiety,
     satisfaction, saturatedness, saturation point, seething, skinful,
     snootful, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse, sousing,
     spring tide, steeping, suffusion, supersaturation, surcharge,
     surfeit, tint, tone, value, vividness, warm color