Definitions for saturation

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saturation sat·u·ra·tion

Spelling: [sach-uh-rey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌsætʃ əˈreɪ ʃən/

Saturation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 678 anagrams from letters in saturation (aainorsttu).

Definitions for saturation

noun

1. the act or process of saturating.
2. the state of being saturated.
3. Meteorology. a condition in the atmosphere corresponding to 100 percent relative humidity.
4. the degree of chroma or purity of a color; the degree of freedom from admixture with white.
5. Magnetism. the state of maximum magnetization of a ferromagnetic material.

Origin of saturation

1545-55; Late Latin saturātiōn- (stem of saturātiō) a filling, equivalent to saturāt(us) (see saturate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for saturation

Otherwise the saturation coverage of the young victims will, over time, come to seem awfully hollow.

But he was the example of a spirit with which the whole age was filled to saturation.

In the saturation coverage that followed the Connecticut school massacre, some in the media made an awful mistake.

That weekend initiated the phenomenon of saturation TV coverage.

“I have reached a saturation point on the small talk about her clothes,” Givhan writes.

In fact, the saturation of the soil is more likely to be a benefit than otherwise.

And so, I have reached a saturation point on the small talk about her clothes.

Only when it remains blue, has the point of saturation been reached.

As the 23d of October had arrived we were glad to avoid daily saturation.

The saturation often falls to 30 per cent., but with great variability.