saturated
verb
Meaning
- To cause to become completely impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
- To fill to excess.
- To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
- To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.
- Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
- Soaked or drenched with moisture.
- (of a solution) 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.
- (color) Having a high level of saturation.
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