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/sˌætʃərˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Saturation n.

The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.

(Chem.) The act, process, or result of saturating a substance, or of combining it to its fullest extent.

(Optics) Freedom from mixture or dilution with white; purity; said of colors. Note: The degree of saturation of a color is its relative purity, or freedom from admixture with white.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Saturation" Quotes from Famous Books

... distance, safe enough. Not until they drew in toward the broken face of the hill would the danger really begin. There it was obvious enough to anybody. The cliff was dangerously overhanging at many points. Doubtless the saturation which had caused the fall had left many of those great projections sufficiently loose to dislodge ...

— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum

... time China's population has remained at 400,000,000—the saturation point. The only reason that the Yellow River periodically drowns millions of Chinese is that there is no other land for those millions to farm. And after every such catastrophe the wave of human life rolls up and ...

— The Human Drift • Jack London

... days, twenty guineas. Good food. Sugar ad lib. All reasonable precautions taken. Casualties amongst visitors up to the present, one sick (sugar saturation). ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 24, 1917 • Various

... His theology is the generalisation of his own experience, and yet that continual autobiographical reference is not egotism, for the light in which he delights to present himself is as the recipient of the great grace of God in pardoning sinners. It is a result of the complete saturation of himself with the Gospel. It was to him no mere body of principles or thoughts, it was the very food and life of his life. And so this characteristic reveals not only his natural fervour of character, but ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... and you wonder that any common person should be so presumptuous as to suppose his thought can rise above the text which lies before him. But think a moment. A child's reading of Shakspeare is one thing, and Coleridge's or Schlegel's reading of him is another. The saturation-point of each mind differs from that of every other. But I think it is as true for the small mind which can only take up a little as for the great one which takes up much, that the suggested trains ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes

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