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Glut vs Saturation - What's the difference?

glut | saturation | Synonyms |

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)
  • an excess, too much
  • a glut of the market
  • * Macaulay
  • A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
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  • That which is swallowed.
  • (Milton)
  • 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.
  • (Raymond)
  • (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
  • (Knight)
  • (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)

    Synonyms

    * excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus

    Antonyms

    * lack * shortage

    Verb

  • To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.
  • to glut one's appetite
  • * Charles Kingsley
  • The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
  • To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  • * Tennyson
  • Like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.

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    saturation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia saturation) (en-noun)
  • 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.
  • Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation .

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