Saturation, saturated, unsaturation or unsaturated may refer to:

Chemistry

* Saturation, a property of organic compounds referring to carbon-carbon bonds **

Saturated and unsaturated compounds In chemistry, a saturated compound is a chemical compound (or ion) that resists the addition reactions, such as hydrogenation, oxidative addition, and binding of a Lewis base. The term is used in many contexts and for many classes of chemical ...

** Degree of unsaturation **

Saturated fat A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all single bonds. A fat known as a glyceride is made of two kinds of smaller molecules: a short glycerol backbone and fatty acids that each contain a long linear or branched ...

or fatty acid **

Unsaturated fat An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is at least one double bond within the fatty acid chain. A fatty acid chain is monounsaturated if it contains one double bond, and polyunsaturated if it contains more than one double b ...

or fatty acid * Non-susceptibility of an organometallic compound to

oxidative addition Oxidative addition and reductive elimination are two important and related classes of reactions in organometallic chemistry. Oxidative addition is a process that increases both the oxidation state and coordination number of a metal centre. Oxid ...

* 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 In chemistry, solubility is the ability of a substance, the solute, to form a solution with another substance, the solvent. Insolubility is the opposite property, the inability of the solute to form such a solution. The extent of the solub ...

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 Saturation pollination is a pollination technique for agricultural crops in areas dominated by non-crop plant species that are preferred by pollinators. The technique involves keeping a larger number of bee colonies than normally maintained for hone ...

, a pollination technique * Saturated mutagenesis, a form of site-directed mutagenesis *

Saturation (genetic) Genetic saturation is the result of multiple substitutions at the same site in a sequence, or identical substitutions in different sequence, such that the apparent sequence divergence rate is lower than the actual divergence that has occurred. In ...

, the observed number of mutations relative to the maximum amount possible * Ocean saturation, more than 2.3 billion years ago: see "

Great Oxygenation Event The Great Oxidation Event (GOE), also called the Great Oxygenation Event, the Oxygen Catastrophe, the Oxygen Revolution, the Oxygen Crisis, or the Oxygen Holocaust, was a time interval during the Paleoproterozoic era when the Earth's atmospher ...

" * Environmental saturation, environmental resistance to population growth: see "

Logistic function A logistic function or logistic curve is a common S-shaped curve (sigmoid function, sigmoid curve) with equation f(x) = \frac, where For values of x in the domain of real numbers from -\infty to +\infty, the S-curve shown on the right is ...

" and "

Carrying capacity The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available. The carrying capacity is defined as t ...

Physics

* Colorfulness § Saturation, see also: "

Saturation intent In digital imaging systems, color management (or colour management) is the controlled conversion between the color representations of various devices, such as image scanners, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, computer printer ...

", a rendering intent in color management * Thermodynamic state at lower temperature bound of

superheated steam Superheated steam is steam at a temperature higher than its vaporization point at the absolute pressure where the temperature is measured. Superheated steam can therefore cool (lose internal energy) by some amount, resulting in a lowering of ...

* 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 The dew point is the temperature to which air must be cooled to become saturated with water vapor, assuming constant air pressure and water content. When cooled below the dew point, moisture capacity is reduced and airborne water vapor will c ...

, which is a temperature that occurs when atmospheric

relative humidity Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air. Water vapor, the gaseous state of water, is generally invisible to the human eye. Humidity indicates the likelihood for precipitation, dew, or fog to be present. Humidity dep ...

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 * 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 Saturation arithmetic is a version of arithmetic in which all operations, such as addition and multiplication, are limited to a fixed range between a minimum and maximum value. If the result of an operation is greater than the maximum, it is set ...

, 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 In mathematics, a measure is said to be saturated if every locally measurable set is also measurable.Bogachev, Vladmir (2007). ''Measure Theory Volume 2''. Springer. . A set E, not necessarily measurable, is said to be a if for every measurable s ...

, 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 The Superjesus are an Australian rock band formed in Adelaide in late 1994. Their debut album, ''Sumo'' (February 1998), peaked at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart, their second album, ''Jet Age'' (October 2000) reached No. 5 and their ...

* ''Saturation'' (Urge Overkill album), 1993 * ''Saturation'' (Vas Deferens Organization album), 1996 * ''Saturation'' (Brockhampton album), 2017 (Also see ''

Saturation II ''Saturation II'' (stylized in all caps) is the second studio album by American boy band Brockhampton, released on August 25, 2017. Production is primarily handled by Romil Hemnani, alongside production duo Q3 (composed of Jabari Manwa and Kiko Me ...

'' and ''

Saturation III ''Saturation III'' (stylized in all caps) is the third studio album by American boy band Brockhampton, released on December 15, 2017. Production is predominantly handled by Romil Hemnani, alongside production duo Q3 (composed of Jabari Manwa and ...

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Other uses

* Market saturation, in economics * Saturation diving