Definitions for saturated

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saturated sat·u·rat·ed

Spelling: [sach-uh-rey-tid]

IPA: /ˈsætʃ əˌreɪ tɪd/

Saturated is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 383 anagrams from letters in saturated (aadersttu).

Definitions for saturated

noun

1. a saturated fat or fatty acid.

adjective

1. soaked, impregnated, or imbued thoroughly; charged thoroughly or completely; brought to a state of saturation.
2. (of colors) of maximum chroma or purity; of the highest intensity of hue; free from admixture of white.
3. Chemistry. (of a solution) containing the maximum amount of solute capable of being dissolved under given conditions. (of an organic compound) containing no double or triple bonds; having each single bond attached to an atom or group. (of an inorganic compound) having no free valence electrons.
4. saturated.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
2. to charge to the utmost, as with magnetism.
3. to soak, impregnate, or imbue thoroughly or completely:
4. to destroy (a target) completely with bombs and missiles.
5. to send so many planes over (a target area) that the defensive electronic tracking equipment becomes ineffective.
6. to furnish (a market) with goods to its full purchasing capacity.

verb (used without object)

1. to become saturated.

Origin of saturated

First recorded in 1660-70; saturate + -ed²

Examples for saturated

I pitched the colors, how saturated it was going to be—a living comic book is the way I wanted to do it.

At 96 percent water, cukes have no saturated fat or cholesterol, and are very high in vitamin K, vitamin B6 and iron.

Even for this his travelled lordship, seasoned and saturated, had no laugh.

The sun-baked canvas was like a sieve and in a moment both men were saturated.

All these talented chefs are graduating from these old-guard kitchens and branching out and the market is saturated.

Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.

On the way down into Spain the road several times broke from tree cover in valleys that were a sea of saturated emerald.

In fact, the correction of the Cambridge study had to do with polyunsaturated fats—not saturated fats.

The air was saturated by it just as water may hold a chemical in solution.

Then he smelled the strange fabric, saturated with the man-smell.