Saturation

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

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
• 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"

Physics

• 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

Electronics

• 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 transistor § Transistor as a switch
• Saturation current, limit of flowing current through a device

Hydrology

• Saturated zone, below the groundwater table
• Unsaturated zone, above the groundwater table
• Soil saturation, water content in a soil

Mathematics

• 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

Music

• "Saturation (song)", a 1997 single by Australian group The Superjesus
• Saturation (Urge Overkill album), 1993
• Saturation (Vas Deferens Organization album), 1996
• Saturation (Brockhampton album), 2017 (Also see Saturation II and Saturation III)

Other uses

• Market saturation, in economics
• Saturation diving

See also

• Saturate (disambiguation)
• Saturation point (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing saturation
• All pages with titles containing saturated
• All pages with titles containing unsaturated