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NOUN:
    1. The act or process of saturating.
    2. The condition of being saturated.
    3. The condition of being full to or beyond satisfaction; satiety.
  2. Physics A state of a ferromagnetic substance in which an increase in applied magnetic field strength does not produce an increase in magnetization.
  3. Chemistry The state of a compound or solution that is fully saturated.
  4. Meteorology A condition in which air at a specific temperature contains all the water vapor it can hold; 100 percent relative humidity.
  5. Vividness of hue; degree of difference from a gray of the same lightness or brightness. Also called intensity. See Table at color.
  6. Intensive shelling or bombing of a military target to achieve total destruction.
  7. The flooding of a market with all of a commodity that consumers can purchase.



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