saturation

/,sætʃə'reiʃn/

Thân thiện

The artist adjusted the saturation of the blue sky in the digital painting.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The state of being completely full or soaked: The condition where something has absorbed as much of a liquid or substance as it possibly can.
   • The intensity or purity of a color: The degree to which a color is vivid and free from being mixed with white, making it appear strong and pure.
   • A point of maximum capacity or concentration: A state where no more of something can be added, absorbed, or responded to.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The heavy rain led to the saturation of the soil, causing puddles to form.
  • Adjust the saturation on your TV to make the colors more vibrant.
  • The market has reached saturation; there are now coffee shops on every corner.

Advanced Usage

• "To reach saturation point": To arrive at a stage where no more can be added, accommodated, or accepted.
  • The news coverage of the event reached saturation point, with every channel discussing it.
• "Color saturation": A technical term in photography, design, and television referring to the intensity of a color.
  • The photographer increased the color saturation in the landscape photo.

Variants and Related Words

• Saturate (verb): To cause something to become thoroughly soaked or to fill something completely.
  • Saturate the sponge with water.
• Saturated (adjective):
  • Soaked with moisture.

    • The ground was saturated after the storm.
  • (Of a color) Very bright and pure.

    • She wore a dress in a saturated red.
  • (Chemistry) Denoting compounds in which all available chemical bonds are used.

    • Saturated fats are typically solid at room temperature.

Synonyms

• Imbibition: The process of soaking up a liquid.
• Soaking: The act of making something very wet.
• Pervasion: The quality of spreading through and being present in every part.
• Intensity (regarding color): The strength or vividness of a color.

Related Phrases

• Market saturation: A situation in which a product has been distributed to all potential consumers and sales volume plateaus.
  • The smartphone market is nearing saturation in many developed countries.
• Saturation bombing/diving: Intensive and widespread military bombing or a state in scuba diving where body tissues have absorbed the maximum amount of inert gas.
  • (Historical) The city was subjected to saturation bombing during the war.
  • Technical divers must carefully manage saturation to avoid decompression sickness.

Related Idioms

• (To be) saturated with: To be filled or loaded with something (often abstract) to the fullest extent.
  • The book is saturated with historical details.
  • The air was saturated with the scent of flowers.

Học thuật

Noun

1. chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
2. a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence
3. the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid
4. the process of totally saturating something with a substance
   • the impregnation of wood with preservative
   • the saturation of cotton with ether

Từ đồng nghĩa

• chroma
• intensity
• vividness
• impregnation