saturated

English

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Verb

saturated

simple past and past participle of saturate

Adjective

saturated (comparative more saturated, superlative most saturated)

(not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
(comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.
Synonyms: drenched, sodden; see also Thesaurus:wet
(not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
(chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
(mathematics, set theory, of a set $S$ , with respect to an equivalence relation $\equiv$ ) Equal to a union of equivalence classes of $\equiv$ $\equiv$ ; such that if $x\in S$ $x\in S$ and $x\equiv y$ $x\equiv y$ then $y\in S$ $y\in S$ .
1. (mathematics, especially topology, with respect to a function $f$ ) Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation $x\equiv y\iff f(x)=f(y)$ (the kernel, noun sense 10, of $f$ ).
(computing) Conforming to saturation arithmetic.
a saturated value
Having a high level of saturation (in various senses).
a saturated image

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full; unable to hold or contain any more

Bulgarian: наситен (bg) (nasiten)
Catalan: saturat (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 飽和 / 饱和 (zh) (bǎohé)
Dutch: verzadigd (nl)
Finnish: kylläinen (fi), kyllästetty
French: saturé (fr)
Georgian: გაჯერებული (gaǯerebuli)
German: gesättigt (de), saturiert (de)
Italian: saturato (it)
Japanese: 飽和した (ほうわした, hōwa shita)
Malay: tertipu
Māori: tōpuni, kōhura
Norwegian: mettet
Romanian: plin (ro)
Russian: насы́щенный (ru) (nasýščennyj)
Turkish: doygun (tr)
Yiddish: אָנגעזעטיקט (ongezetikt)

soaked or drenched with moisture

Albanian: ujësuar (sq)
Bulgarian: пропит (bg) (propit), просмукан (bg) (prosmukan)
Finnish: läpimärkä (fi), vettä tippuva
Georgian: გაჟღენთილი (gažɣentili)
Māori: tōpuni
Norwegian: mettet
Plautdietsch: derchjenat
Russian: пропи́танный (ru) (propítannyj)

of a solution: containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved

Azerbaijani: doymuş (az)
Bulgarian: наситен (bg) (nasiten)
Catalan: saturat (ca)
Danish: mættet
Finnish: kylläinen (fi)
Indonesian: jenuh (id)
Irish: sáithithe
Japanese: 飽和した (ほうわした, hōwa shita)
Norwegian: mettet
Romanian: saturat (ro)
Russian: насы́щенный (ru) (nasýščennyj)
Tagalog: tigmak
Yiddish: אָנגעזעטיקט (ongezetikt)

chemistry: having all available valence bonds filled

Azerbaijani: doymuş (az)
Bulgarian: наситен (bg) (nasiten)
Catalan: saturat (ca)
Danish: mættet
Finnish: tyydyttynyt (fi)
Hungarian: telített (hu)
Indonesian: jenuh (id)
Irish: sáithithe
Japanese: 飽和した (ほうわした, hōwa shita)
Māori: kōhura
Norwegian: mettet
Romanian: saturat (ro)
Russian: насы́щенный (ru) (nasýščennyj)
Turkish: doygun (tr)
Welsh: dirlawn (cy)
Yiddish: אָנגעזעטיקט (ongezetikt)

colour: having a high level of saturation

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Noun

saturated (plural saturateds)

A saturated hydrocarbon.
- 1916, Eugene Hendricks Leslie, The Decomposition of Hydrocarbons and the Influence of Hydrogen in Carbureted Water Gas Manufacture (page 73)
  Thus, in Fig. 12, if it is assumed that the illuminants are chiefly ethylene and the saturateds largely methane it can be seen that the normal formation of ethylene is […]

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