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

1. Colorfulness
2. Saturation diving
3. Oxygen saturation
4. Vapor pressure
5. Saturation III
6. Transferrin saturation
7. Boiling point
8. HSL and HSV
9. Degree of saturation
10. Saturation arithmetic
11. Saturation mutagenesis
12. Saturation point
13. Saturation (magnetic)
14. Saturation (traffic)
15. Saturation current
16. Oxygen saturation (medicine)
17. Pulse oximetry
18. Saturation II
19. Hard water
20. Brockhampton (band)