saturated adjective 8noun 1forms 3 adjective8 •Full; unable to hold or contain any more. •Soaked or drenched with moisture. •Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature. •Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms. •Having a high level of saturation (in various senses). •Conforming to saturation arithmetic. •Equal to a union of equivalence classes of ≡; such that if x∈S and x≡y then y∈S. •Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y) (the kernel, noun sense 10, of f). noun1 •A saturated hydrocarbon.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 […] — 1916 formssaturateds · more saturated · most saturated