saturated

saturate | American Dictionary

saturate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈsætʃ·əˌreɪt/
to make something or someone completely wet, or to make a place completely full of something:
Water thoroughly to saturate the soil.
Contemporary U.S. culture is completely saturated with technology.
chemistry
Saturate also means to cause a substance to combine with as much of another substance as is possible.

saturation

noun[ U ]us/ˌsætʃ·əˈreɪ·ʃən/

saturate | Business English

saturate
verb[ T ]
 MARKETING, COMMERCEuk /ˈsætʃəreɪt/us
 saturate the market
to provide more of a product or service than people want to buy:
Mortgage lenders have recognised that they saturated the market five years ago.
They are opening up new markets faster than the old ones can be saturated.

Examples of saturate

saturate
The stoichiometry of the exact reaction will depend on the nature of the organic matter involved, here assumed to be saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
As before, the stress saturates, tending at large times to a position-independent value, away from the boundary.
Since open wells are usually not more than 40-50 feet, the average depth has saturated at 50 feet in all the villages.
The nominated theme has virtually saturated this issue.
One inevitable consequence of this formulation is that the flow divides naturally into saturated and unsaturated regions.
The instability is expected to saturate rapidly by the nonlinear damping from inelastic collisions, which depend strongly on the electron temperature.
The saturating sticky traps were reduced to their simplest form as flat discs without retaining panels or barriers.
However, this statement does not mean that another motion saturated more fully may exist.
The subjects were asked to put the filter paper in their mouth until it was saturated with saliva.
The reduced model did not differ significantly from the saturated model by an analysis-of-variance test (c2=4.2514 on 11 degrees of freedom, p=0.3730).
Further simulations were not carried out due to the fact that the plasma had by this time saturated.
Such dependence could easily exist if parasites saturate the susceptible pool of allopatric hosts, but at a higher dose than for sympatric hosts.
This is a result of the waves saturating, and being absorbed by both electrons and ions.
However, the surface is saturated with superoxides and peroxides, which would rapidly degrade any organic material.
The shape of the variance -mean relation suggests that in bright light transmitter release approaches zero, while in darkness transmitter release saturates the postsynaptic response.
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