Saturation Explained

Saturation, saturated, unsaturation or unsaturated may refer to:

Chemistry

Saturated and unsaturated compounds, a classification of compounds related to their ability to resist addition reactions
- Degree of unsaturation
- Saturated fat or saturated fatty acid
- Unsaturated fat or unsaturated fatty acid
- Non-susceptibility of an organometallic compound to oxidative addition
Saturation of protein binding sites
Saturation of enzymes with a substrate
Saturation of a solute in a solution, as related to the solute's maximum solubility at equilibrium
- Supersaturation, where the concentration of a solute exceeds its maximum solubility at equilibrium
- Undersaturation, where the concentration of a solute is less than its maximum solubility at equilibrium

Oxygen saturation, a clinical measure of the amount of oxygen in a patient's blood
Saturation pollination, a pollination technique
Saturated mutagenesis, a form of site-directed mutagenesis
Saturation (genetic), the observed number of mutations relative to the maximum amount possible
Ocean saturation, more than 2.3 billion years ago: see "Great Oxygenation Event"
Environmental saturation, environmental resistance to population growth: see "Logistic function" and "Carrying capacity"

Colorfulness § Saturation, see also: "Saturation intent", a rendering intent in color management
Thermodynamic state at lower temperature bound of superheated steam
Saturation (magnetic), the state when a magnetic material is fully magnetized
Saturated fluid or saturated vapor, contains as much thermal energy as it can without boiling or condensing
- Saturated steam
Dew point, which is a temperature that occurs when atmospheric relative humidity reaches 100% and the air is saturated with moisture
Saturated absorption, a set-up that enables the precise determination of the transition frequency of an atom between its ground state and an optically excited state

Saturation velocity, the maximum velocity charge carrier in a semiconductor attains in the presence of very high electric fields
Saturation, a region of operation of a
Saturation current, limit of flowing current through a device

Saturation (commutative algebra), the inverse image of the localization of an ideal or submodule
Saturated model, a concept in mathematical logic
Saturation arithmetic, in arithmetic, a version of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to fixed range
Saturation (graph theory), a categorization of vertices in graph theory
Saturated measure, if every locally measurable set is also measurable
Saturated multiplicatively closed sets, a concept in ring theory