saturate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin saturatus, perfect passive participle of saturare (“to fill full”), from satur (“full”).
Pronunciation
Verb
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- To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
- 1815, in the Annals of Philosophy, volume 6, page 332:
- Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas, […]
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- Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.
- Rain saturated their clothes.
- After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.
- 1815, in the Annals of Philosophy, volume 6, page 332:
- To fill to excess.
- Modern television is saturated with violence.
- 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.
- (optics) To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.
Related terms
Translations
to become penetrated or soaked
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to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold
Noun
saturate (plural saturates)
- (chemistry) Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
- 1999, Tom Brody, Nutritional Biochemistry, Academic Press (→ISBN), page 363
- Through formation of a double bond, stearic acid (18:0), a saturate, is converted to acid (18:1), a monounsaturate.
- 1973, Paul Nels Rylander, Fourth Conference on Catalytic Hydrogenation and Analogous Pressure Reactions:
- We estimate from Table 4 that the average deuterium content in the saturate is approximately 1.1 when palladium is the catalyst, 1.6 when platinum is the catalyst, and 1.7 when rhodium is the catalyst. If there were only deuterium on the surface, the saturate would average 2 deuteriums.
- 1999, Tom Brody, Nutritional Biochemistry, Academic Press (→ISBN), page 363
Adjective
saturate (comparative more saturate, superlative most saturate)
- Saturated; wet.
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- (entomology) Very intense.
- saturate green
Further reading
- “saturate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “saturate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “saturate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
saturate
- second-person plural present indicative of saturare
- second-person plural imperative of saturare
- feminine plural of saturato
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) saturāte
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