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Saturate vs Saturation - What's the difference?

saturate | saturation |

As a verb saturate

is to cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).

As a noun saturation is

the act of saturating or the process of being saturated.

saturate

English

Verb

(saturat)
  • To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
  • * 1815 , in the Annals of Philosophy , volume 6, page 332:
    • Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas,
  • * Macaulay
    • Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.
    Rain saturated their clothes.
    After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated .
  • To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
    • One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.

    Related terms

    * sate * satis * satisfy

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    saturation

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    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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