Definition of "saturated" in Anglais

verb

1. simple past and past participle of saturate

adjective

1. (not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.

2. (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.

3. (not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.

4. (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.

5. (mathematics, set theory, of a set S, with respect to an equivalence relation ≡) Equal to a union of equivalence classes of ≡; such that if x∈S and x≡y then y∈S.

6. (computing) Conforming to saturation arithmetic.

   • a saturated value

7. Having a high level of saturation (in various senses).

   • a saturated image