Saturation
Look up saturated, saturation, unsaturated, or unsaturation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Saturation, saturated, unsaturation or unsaturated may refer to:
Chemistry
- Saturation (chemistry) a property of hydrocarbons, including fats
- Saturated fat, a fat that consists of triglycerides containing only saturated fatty acids
- Saturated and unsaturated compounds
- Degree of unsaturation
- Non-susceptibility of an organometallic compound to oxidative addition
- Saturation of protein binding sites
- Saturation of a solute in a solution, as related to the solutes maximum solubility
Biology
- 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
Physics
- Colorfulness, 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
- Dew point, which is a temperature that occurs when atmospheric 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
Electronics
- Saturation velocity, the maximum velocity a charge carrier in a semiconductor attains in the presence of very high electric fields
- Saturation, a region of operation of a transistor
- Saturation current, limit of flowing current through a device
Hydrology
- A solution containing the maximum possible amount of a dissolved material, see also the related topics of solvation, dissolution and solubility
- Supersaturation
- Saturated zone, below the groundwater table
- Unsaturated zone, above the groundwater table
- Soil saturation, water content in a soil
Mathematics
- 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
Other
- Market saturation, in economics
- Saturation (Urge Overkill album), 1993
- Saturation (Vas Deferens Organization album), 1996
See also
- Saturate (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing saturation
- All pages with titles containing saturated
- All pages with titles containing unsaturated
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/6/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.