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Organic vs Saturation - What's the difference?

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In chemistry terms the difference between organic and saturation

is that organic is an organic compound while saturation is the state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.

As an adjective organic

is pertaining to or derived from living organisms.

organic

Alternative forms

* organick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (biology) pertaining to or derived from living organisms.
  • pertaining to an organ of the body of a living organism.
  • (chemistry) relating to the compounds of carbon, relating to natural products
  • of food or food products, grown in an environment free from artificial agrichemicals, and possibly certified by a regulatory body.
  • (sociology) describing a form of social solidarity theorized by Emile Durkheim that is characterized by voluntary engagements in complex interdepencies for mutual benefit (such as business agreements), rather than mechanical solidarity, which depends on ascribed relations between people (as in a family or tribe).
  • (military) Of a military unit or formation, or its elements, belonging to a permanent organization (in contrast to being temporarily attached).
  • * 1998 : Eyal Ben-Ari, Mastering Soldiers: Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Military Unit . Beghahn Books, p 29.
  • ''Socially, the term “organic ” unit implies a military force characterized by relatively high cohesion, overlapping primary groups and a certain sense of shared past.
  • * 1945 : U.S. War Department, Handbook on German Military Forces . LSU Press (1990). p 161.
  • Most types of German field divisions include an organic reconnaissance battalion, and the remainder have strong reconnaissance companies.
  • Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
  • * Milton
  • those organic arts which enable men to discourse and write perspicuously
  • (Internet, of search results) Generated according to the ranking algorithms of a search engine, as opposed to paid placement by advertisers.
  • * 2008 , Michael Masterson, MaryEllen Tribby, Changing the Channel: 12 Easy Ways to Make Millions for Your Business
  • According to a recent survey by Jupiter Research, 80 percent of Web users get information from organic search results.

    Coordinate terms

    * (chemistry) inorganic

    Derived terms

    * organic agriculture * organic chemistry * organic forestry * organic intellectual * organicness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) An organic compound
  • See also

    * inorganic

    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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