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SATURATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("saturation" is a kind of...):
filling (the act of filling something)
Derivation:
saturate (cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
Synonyms:
chroma; intensity; saturation; vividness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("saturation" is a kind of...):
color property (an attribute of color)
Holonyms ("saturation" is a substance of...):
chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The process of totally saturating something with a substance
Example:
the saturation of cotton with ether
Synonyms:
impregnation; saturation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("saturation" is a kind of...):
permeation; pervasion; suffusion (the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance)
Holonyms ("saturation" is a part of...):
plastination (a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("saturation" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saturation"):
saturation point ((chemistry) the stage at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution or in a vapor)
Context examples:
The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between red and yellow, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 590 to 630 nanometers; any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue, of medium lightness and moderate saturation.
(Orange, NCI Thesaurus)
The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass.
(Green, NCI Thesaurus)
The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky.
(Blue, NCI Thesaurus)
A soundscape’s saturation refers to the variety of pitches and frequencies found in the sounds.
(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)
Burivalova and his team found that soundscape saturation peaked at dawn and dusk, likely because most birds and amphibians vocalise in those periods.
(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)
