Definition of "saturation" in Anglais

noun

1. The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.

2. (physics) The condition in which, after a sufficient increase in a causal force, no further increase in the resultant effect is possible; e.g. the state of a ferromagnetic material that cannot be further magnetized.

3. (chemistry) The state of a saturated solution.

4. (chemistry) The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.

5. (mathematics, set theory, topology, of a set S, with respect to an equivalence relation or function, countable) The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.

6. (meteorology) The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.

7. (art) The intensity or vividness of a colour.

8. Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.

9. intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.

10. The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.

11. (music) An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.

12. (telecommunications) The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.

13. (telecommunications) The point at which the output of a linear device, such as a linear amplifier, deviates significantly from being a linear function of the input when the input signal is increased.

    • Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation.

14. (computing) A form of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to a fixed range of values. See Saturation arithmetic.