saturated
verb
- 1
To cause to become completely impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
“After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.”
- 2
To fill to excess.
“Modern television is saturated with violence.”
- 3
To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
“One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.”
- 4
To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.
adjective
- 1
Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
- 2
Soaked or drenched with moisture.
- 3
(of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
- 4
Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
- 5
(color) Having a high level of saturation.
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