Glut vs Saturation - What's the difference?
glut | saturation | Synonyms |
an excess, too much
* Macaulay
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That which is swallowed.
Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
(mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
(bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
(architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
A block used for a fulcrum.
The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris ), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
(Webster 1913)
To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.
* Charles Kingsley
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
* Tennyson
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the act of saturating or the process of being saturated
(physics) 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
(chemistry) the state of a saturated solution
(chemistry) the state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds
(meteorology) the state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity
(art) the intensity or vividness of a colour
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
(music) 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.
As nouns the difference between glut and saturation
is that glut is an excess, too much while saturation is the act of saturating or the process of being saturated.As a verb glut
is to fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.glut
English
Noun
(en noun)- a glut of the market
- A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
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Synonyms
* excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplusAntonyms
* lack * shortageVerb
- to glut one's appetite
- The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
- Like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.
References
saturation
English
Noun
(wikipedia saturation) (en-noun)- Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation .