saturation

noun14

1. •
   The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
2. •
   The state of a saturated solution.
3. •
   The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
4. •
   The intensity or vividness of a colour.
5. •
   Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
6. •
   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.
7. •
   The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
8. •
   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.

   • Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation.
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. •
    The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
12. •
    An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
13. •
    A form of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to a fixed range of values. See Saturation arithmetic.

    • Packed add with wraparound […] Packed add signed with saturation […] Packed add unsigned with saturation — 1996
14. •
    The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.