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Saturation vs Superfluity - What's the difference?

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Saturation is a related term of superfluity.


As nouns the difference between saturation and superfluity

is that saturation is the act of saturating or the process of being saturated while superfluity is the quality or state of being superfluous; in excess or overabundance.

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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    superfluity

    English

    Noun

    (superfluities)
  • The quality or state of being superfluous; in excess or overabundance.
  • Something superfluous, as a luxury.
  • (rare) Collective noun for a group of nuns.
  • * 1905 , Herbert A. Evans, Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds , Macmillan and Co, (1905), page 266:
    • These probably mark the dwelling of a colony, or to speak more precisely, according to Dame Juliana Berners, a superfluity of nuns from Godstow, which nunnery had a cell there, and was patron of the living.
  • * 2011 , Sam Cullen, The Odd Bunnies , unnumbered page:
    • Alice put Anna back on the shelf and turned up the volume on the TV, where a local news reporter was imparting a salutary tale of woe involving a superfluity of nuns who'd got into a scrape at a crab festival.
  • * 2012 , Beth Yarnall, Rush , Crimson Romance (2012), ISBN 9781440554223, unnumbered page:
    • That man could charm the panties off a superfluity of nuns.”