saturated

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

saturated

1. simple past and past participle of saturate

Adjective

saturated (comparative more saturated, superlative most saturated)

1. (not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
2. (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.

   Synonyms: drenched, sodden; see also Thesaurus:wet

4. (not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
5. (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
6. (mathematics, set theory, of a set $S$, with respect to an equivalence relation $\equiv$) Equal to a union of equivalence classes of $\equiv$; such that if $x\in S$ and $x\equiv y$ then $y\in S$.
   1. (mathematics, especially topology, with respect to a function $f$) Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation $x\equiv y⟺f(x)=f(y)$ (the kernel, noun sense 10, of $f$).
7. (computing) Conforming to saturation arithmetic.

   a saturated value

8. Having a high level of saturation (in various senses).

   a saturated image

Derived terms

• disaturated
• hypersaturated
• isosaturated
• monosaturated
• monounsaturated
• nonsaturated
• polysaturated
• polyunsaturated
• saturated fat
• saturated fatty acid
• saturatedly
• saturatedness
• saturated solution
• saturated steam
• saturated vapor pressure
• saturated zone
• semisaturated
• subsaturated
• supersaturated
• trisaturated
• undersaturated
• unsaturated

Related terms

• saturate
• saturation
• saturity

Translations

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
• Polish: wypełniony po brzegi, pełny (pl)
• 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
• Polish: przemoczony, przemoknięty, przesiąknięty, przemokły, zmoknięty, namokły, zmokły
• 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)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飽和 / 饱和 (zh) (bǎohé)

• Danish: mættet
• Finnish: kylläinen (fi)
• Indonesian: jenuh (id)
• Irish: sáithithe
• Japanese: 飽和した (ほうわした, hōwa shita)
• Norwegian: mettet
• Polish: nasycony (pl)
• 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
• Polish: nasycony (pl)
• Romanian: saturat (ro)
• Russian: насы́щенный (ru) (nasýščennyj)
• Turkish: doygun (tr)
• Welsh: dirlawn (cy)
• Yiddish: אָנגעזעטיקט (ongezetikt)

colour: having a high level of saturation

• Polish: nasycony (pl)

Noun

saturated (plural saturateds)

1. 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 […]

References

• “saturated”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.