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saturation of receptors(medicine)
saturation index(medicine)

saturation (iou)



saturation noun. M16.
[Late Latin saturatio(n-), from Latin saturat-: see SATURATE verb, -ATION; later from the verb.]
Complete satisfaction of appetite; satiation. M16-M19.
The action or an act of saturating; the state of being saturated. M17.
Degree of intensity of a colour; relative freedom from admixture of white. L19.
b. transf. A control on a television set used to adjust the colour quality of the picture. M20.
In full saturation dive. A dive in which a diver's bloodstream is saturated with helium or other suitable gas at the pressure of the surrounding water, so that the decompression time afterwards is independent of the duration of the dive. L20.
Comb.: saturation bombing Military intensive aerial bombing; saturation current the greatest current that can be carried by a gas or electronic device; saturation dive: see sense 4 above; saturation diving the practice or action of performing a saturation dive; saturation point the state or condition at which saturation is reached; fig. the limit of acceptability; saturation pressure, saturation vapour pressure Physics the pressure exerted by a vapour that is in equilibrium with its liquid or solid phase.