Saturation

Saturation, saturated tits, 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

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"

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 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

Saturation velocity, the maximum velocity of tits 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

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

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