Saturation vs Surfeit - What's the difference?
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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.
(countable) An excessive amount of something.
(uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
* Shakespeare
(countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
* Bunyan
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
* Burke
* Sir Philip Sidney
To fill to excess.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
*:You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
*:That hath to instrument this lower world
*:And what is in't,—the never-surfeited sea
*:Hath caused to belch up you;
To feed someone to excess.
(reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess.
*1906 , O. Henry,
*:To the door of this, the twelfth house whose bell he had rung, came a housekeeper who made him think of an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten its nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers.
(reflexive) To sicken from overindulgence.
Saturation is a related term of surfeit.
As nouns the difference between saturation and surfeit
is that saturation is the act of saturating or the process of being saturated while surfeit is (countable) an excessive amount of something.As a verb surfeit is
to fill to excess.saturation
English
Noun
(wikipedia saturation) (en-noun)- Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation .
Anagrams
* ----surfeit
English
Noun
- A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.
- Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
- King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.
- to prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels
- Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit .
- Now for similitudes in certain printed discourses, I think all herbalists, all stories of beasts, fowls, and fishes are rifled up, that they may come in multitudes to wait upon any of our conceits, which certainly is as absurd a surfeit to the ears as is possible.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "surfeit")Synonyms
* (excessive amount of something) excess, glut, overabundance, superfluity, surplus * (overindulgence in food or drink) gluttony, overeating, overindulgenceVerb
(en verb)- She surfeited her children on sweets.