saturation
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
- 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.
- The state of a saturated solution.
- The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
- The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
- The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
- The intensity or vividness of a colour.
- Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
- intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.
- The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
- An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
- The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
- 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.
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