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* [[Saturation (genetic)]], the observed number of mutations relative to the maximum amount possible |
* [[Saturation (genetic)]], the observed number of mutations relative to the maximum amount possible |
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* Ocean saturation, more than 2.3 billion years ago: see "[[Great Oxygenation Event]]" |
* Ocean saturation, more than 2.3 billion years ago: see "[[Great Oxygenation Event]]" |
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* Environmental saturation, environmental resistance to population growth: see "[[Logistic function]]" |
* Environmental saturation, environmental resistance to population growth: see "[[Logistic function]]" and "[[Carrying capacity]]" |
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==Physics== |
==Physics== |
Revision as of 16:38, 14 August 2020
Saturation, saturated, unsaturation or unsaturated may refer to:
Chemistry
- Saturation, a property of organic compounds referring to carbon-carbon bonds
- Saturated and unsaturated compounds
- Degree of unsaturation
- Saturated fat or fatty acid
- Unsaturated fat or 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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