# saturation

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #17,950

## Definitions
1. The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
2. The condition in which, after a sufficient increase in a causal force, no further increase in the resultant effect is possible; e.g. the state of a ferromagnetic material that cannot be further magnetized.
3. The state of a saturated solution.
4. The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
5. The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
6. The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
7. The intensity or vividness of a colour.
8. Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
9. intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.
10. The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
11. An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
12. The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
13. The point at which the output of a linear device, such as a linear amplifier, deviates significantly from being a linear function of the input when the input signal is increased.
14. A form of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to a fixed range of values. See Saturation arithmetic.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Late Latin saturatiobor.
English saturation
Borrowed from Late Latin saturatio, saturationem.

## Easily confused with
- **situation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saturation-vs-situation)

## Common misspellings (15)
`asturation`, `satruation`, `satturation`, `satuartion`, `saturaiton`, `saturasion`, `saturatino`, `saturationn`, `saturatoin`, `saturattion`, `saturration`, `saturtaion`, `sautration`, `ssaturation`, `stauration`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/saturation