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Saturation   /sˌætʃərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Saturation

noun
1.
The process of totally saturating something with a substance.  Synonym: impregnation.  "The saturation of cotton with ether"
2.
The act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid.
3.
A condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence.
4.
Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue.  Synonyms: chroma, intensity, vividness.



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"Saturation" Quotes from Famous Books



... way it looked, and I was a liar—to all appearances, and there's no heaven on earth for either. I've seen that all along the line. One thing is sure, Gladney has reached, as in his engineering phrase he'd say, the line of saturation, and I the line of liver, thanks be to London and its joys! And now for sulphur ...
— An Unpardonable Liar • Gilbert Parker

... does nothing but increase. It suffices then for but little remanent magnetism to prime the machine; the polarity of the shell continues to increase, and the energy of the magnetic field, and consequently of the current, has for a limit only the saturation of the soft iron. If, now, we curve the core, the spirals, and the armature into a circle, we have a Gramme or a Pfaundler machine, according as we consider Fig. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. • Various

... and plant roots, and relaid along the rows before planting; but this calls for too much labor, except perhaps for amateur gardeners. The kind of soil best suited to such a system is a medium loam which will distribute water sufficiently to avoid saturation and air-exclusion. Both a heavy soil which does this, and a coarse sandy loam which takes water down out of reach of shallow-rooting plants too rapidly and lacks capillarity to draw it up again, are ...
— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson

... lime in the water and fodder is the main cause of the calculi, as other poisons which are operative in the same districts in causing goiter in both man and animal probably contribute to the trouble, yet the excess of earthy salts in the drinking water can hardly fail to add to the saturation of both blood and urine, and thereby to favor the precipitation of the urinary solids from their ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... comfortable to see how the people coming back in open carts from Wigton market made no more of the rain than if it were sunshine; how the Wigton policeman taking a country walk of half-a- dozen miles (apparently for pleasure), in resplendent uniform, accepted saturation as his normal state; how clerks and schoolmasters in black, loitered along the road without umbrellas, getting varnished at every step; how the Cumberland girls, coming out to look after the Cumberland cows, ...
— The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices • Charles Dickens


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