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saturated
飽和的
saturated
飽和
Sat·u·rate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saturated p. pr. & vb. n. Saturating.]
1. To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. --Macaulay.
Fill and saturate each kind
With good according to its mind. --Emerson.
2. Chem. To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
Sat·u·ra·ted a.
1. Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.
2. Chem. Having its affinity satisfied; combined with all it can hold; -- said of certain atoms, radicals, or compounds; thus, methane is a saturated compound. Contrasted with unsaturated.
Note: ☞ A saturated compound may exchange certain ingredients for others, but can not take on more without such exchange.
Saturated color Optics, a color not diluted with white; a pure unmixed color, like those of the spectrum.
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saturated
adj 1: being the most concentrated solution possible at a given
temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a
substance; "a saturated solution" [syn: concentrated]
[ant: unsaturated]
2: wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door
drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated with
perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"; "the
speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes" [syn: drenched,
soaked, soaking, sodden, sopping, soppy]
3: used especially of organic compounds; having all available
valence bonds filled; "saturated fats" [ant: unsaturated]
4: (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white
or gray or black [syn: pure] [ant: unsaturated]