'Saturation' definitions:
Definition of 'saturation'
From: WordNet
noun
The process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether" [syn: impregnation, saturation]
noun
The act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid
noun
A condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence
noun
Definition of 'Saturation'
From: GCIDE
- Saturation \Sat`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. saturatio: cf. F. saturation.]
- 1. The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Chem.) The act, process, or result of saturating a substance, or of combining it to its fullest extent. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Optics) Freedom from mixture or dilution with white; purity; -- said of colors. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The degree of saturation of a color is its relative purity, or freedom from admixture with white. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'saturation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amplitude,
- bellyful,
- brewing,
- bright color,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- chroma,
- chromatic color,
- chromaticity,
- color,
- color quality,
- colorfulness,
- colorimetric quality,
- congestion,
- cool color,
- decoction,
- drench,
- drenching,
- ducking,
- dunking,
- engorgement,
- fill,
- flood tide,
- full,
- fullness,
- gaiety,
- glut,
- gorgeousness,
- high tide,
- high water,
- hue,
- hyperemia,
- imbruement,
- imbuement,
- impletion,
- impregnation,
- infiltration,
- infusion,
- injection,
- instillation,
- instillment,
- intensity,
- interpenetration,
- leaching,
- lightness,
- lixiviation,
- maceration,
- marination,
- more than enough,
- Munsell chroma,
- neutral color,
- overbrimming,
- overburden,
- overcharge,
- overflow,
- overfreight,
- overfullness,
- overload,
- overspill,
- overweight,
- penetration,
- percolation,
- permeation,
- pervasion,
- plenitude,
- plethora,
- pulping,
- pure color,
- purity,
- repletion,
- richness,
- satiation,
- satiety,
- satisfaction,
- saturatedness,
- saturation point,
- seething,
- skinful,
- snootful,
- soak,
- soakage,
- soaking,
- sopping,
- souse,
- sousing,
- spring tide,
- steeping,
- suffusion,
- supersaturation,
- surcharge,
- surfeit,
- Technicolor,
- tint,
- tone,
- value,
- vividness,
- warm color