saturation

The process of filling or soaking something completely with a substance.

• Heavy rain caused soil saturation.
• Saturation with oil changed the fabric’s appearance.
• The test measured the speed of saturation.

How to use it: saturation with something (Saturation with water made the wood heavier.)

Similar words: soaking, impregnation

Common phrases: complete saturation, soil saturation, saturation with water

How strong and vivid a color looks, rather than pale or gray.

• Increase the saturation to brighten the colors.
• She reduced the photo’s saturation.
• This shade has high saturation.

Similar words: color intensity

Common phrases: color saturation, increase saturation, reduce saturation

A state where adding more of something produces no further increase in its effect.

• The metal has reached saturation.
• Beyond saturation, a stronger field has little effect.
• We measured the saturation point of the material.

Common phrases: reach saturation, magnetic saturation, saturation point

The state of a liquid that cannot dissolve any more of a particular substance.

• The solution reached saturation.
• Extra sugar remained undissolved after saturation.
• Heating the water changed its saturation point.

Common phrases: reach saturation, solution saturation, saturation point

The state of a carbon-based substance whose atoms have only single bonds between them.

• This reaction increases the compound’s saturation.
• Complete saturation removes all double and triple bonds.
• The chemist measured the molecule’s degree of saturation.

Common phrases: complete saturation, degree of saturation, molecular saturation

The state of air holding all the water vapor it can hold at a given temperature.

• The air reached saturation overnight.
• Fog appeared as the temperature fell to the saturation point.
• At saturation, the relative humidity is one hundred percent.

Common phrases: air saturation, reach saturation, saturation point