# sat

Pronunciation: say "SAT" /sæt/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of sit. — simple past and past participle of sit
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of sit. Use it for the past, or after has, have or had.
   - _She sat down beside her grandfather and took his hand._
   - _The banquet hall sat three hundred guests for the wedding._

## Noun · SAT

2. Short for SAT Reasoning Test, formerly an acronym of Scholastic Aptitude Test and of Scholastic Assessment Test: a US national exam taken each year by high school juniors and seniors. *(US)* — Ellipsis of SAT Reasoning Test, formerly acronyms Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test: a national exam taken annually by high school juniors and seniors. (pronounced: say "es-ay-TEE" US /ˌɛs eɪ ˈti/, UK /ˌɛs eɪ ˈtiː/)
   - Simple: Short for SAT Reasoning Test, a national test US students take in the last years of high school.
   - _She scored 1450 on the SAT and applied to six colleges._
   - _Many juniors take the SATs in the spring and again in the fall._
7. Acronym of Statutory Assessment Test, a national curriculum assessment taken in schools in England. *(British)* — Acronym of Statutory Assessment Test, a national curriculum assessment, or exam.
   - Simple: Short for Statutory Assessment Test, a national test that children in England take at school.
   - _Pupils spent the spring term revising for their SATs._
   - _The head teacher said this year's maths SAT was harder than last year's._

## Noun · Sat

3. Abbreviation of Saturday. — Abbreviation of Saturday.
   - Simple: Short for Saturday. People use it in writing, like on calendars and signs.
   - _Library hours: Mon–Fri 9–8, Sat 10–5, closed Sun._
   - _Next practice: Sat., 10 a.m., at the north field._

## Adjective

4. Sitting down, or in a seated position somewhere. *(nonstandard, UK)*
   - Simple: Sitting down in a seat or another place.
   - _Hang on, I'm sat on the train. I'll ring you back in ten minutes._
   - _They'd been sat in the queue at the post office for half an hour._
8. Abbreviation of satisfactory. — Abbreviation of satisfactory.
   - Simple: Short for satisfactory. Used on forms and checklists to mean good enough.
   - _The safety audit came back sat on every item except the fire exits._
   - _The sergeant rated the platoon's weapons inspection sat._
9. Abbreviation of saturated. — Abbreviation of saturated.
   - Simple: Short for saturated. Used in short notes and labels, as in sat fat.
   - _Each serving has 9 grams of fat, 3 of them sat fat._
   - _Wash the organic layer twice with sat. sodium bicarbonate solution._

## Noun

5. Abbreviation of satellite, in the sense of a human-made object placed in orbit. — Abbreviation of satellite (“artificial orbital body”).
   - Simple: Short for satellite, a machine sent into space to travel around a planet.
   - _The launch put two more communications sats into low orbit._
   - _Ground controllers lost contact with the weather sat for nearly an hour._
6. A level of saturation, especially the level of oxygen in the blood.
   - Simple: How full something is, most often how much oxygen is in a person's blood.
   - _We can't send him home until his sats stay above 94 percent._
   - _Her oxygen sat on room air was only 90 percent._

## Other meanings

- (noun) Abbreviation of satoshi, a hundred-millionth of a bitcoin.
- (adjective) Abbreviation of satisfied.
- (noun) Initialism of surface air temperature.
- (noun) Abbreviation of satori, a mutant gene in Drosophila fruit flies that causes homosexual behavior in males, specifically courtship directed at other males.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/sat (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).