Saturation

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Saturation, saturated, unsaturation or unsaturated may refer to:

Chemistry

Hydrology

  • Saturated zone, below the groundwater table
  • Unsaturated zone, above the groundwater table

Mathematics

Physics

  • Saturation (color theory)
  • Thermodynamic state at lower temperature bound of superheated steam
  • Saturation (magnetic), the state when a magnetic material is fully magnetized
  • Saturation current, limit of flowing current through a device
  • Saturated fluid or saturated vapor, contains as much thermal energy as it can without boiling or condensing
  • Saturation, a region of operation of a transistor
  • Dew point, which is a temperature that occurs when atmospheric humidity reaches 100% and the air is saturated with moisture

Other

See also

  • Saturate (disambiguation)
  • Saturation intent, a rendering intent in color management
  • Saturated fat, fat that consists of triglycerides containing only saturated fatty acid radicals
  • 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 velocity, the maximum velocity a charge carrier in a semiconductor attains in the presence of very high electric fields
  • 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
  • Degree of unsaturation
  • All pages with titles containing "saturation"
  • All pages with titles containing "saturated"
  • All pages with titles containing "unsaturated"
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