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Meaning of Saturation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
  2. 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. The state of a saturated solution.
  4. The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
  5. The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
  6. The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
  7. 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. An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
  12. The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
  13. 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.
  14. A form of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to a fixed range of values. See Saturation arithmetic.

Equivalents

Examples

“Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation.”
“Packed add with wraparound […] Packed add signed with saturation […] Packed add unsigned with saturation”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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