saturate

saturation | Business English

saturation
noun[ U ]
 MARKETING, COMMERCEuk /ˌsætʃərˈeɪʃən/us
a situation in which too much of a product or service is provided so that there is more available than there are people who want to buy it:
market saturation/saturation of the market
Their expansion into consumer lending is reaching saturation point.

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These trajectories take into account the relative target motion and thruster/actuator saturation limits.
Saturation of views was ensured as far as possible by utilizing alternative recruitment strategies.
Preliminary data thus suggest that pairs of stimuli matched in saturation for adults will not be equally preferred by infants.
Finally, as knowledge reaches a point of saturation, the previous knowledge has a negative influence, and reduces a party's ability to learn to zero.
The last point to be examined in this section is related to the saturation of the downstream part of the foil by the transient bubbles.
The apparent postponement of saturation is postulated to be due to modification of the flow field by convergence.
Five days later, following extubation, the saturations were 86-88% in 50% facial oxygen.
There was also the significant influence of uncommon saturation pixels for this spot.
This way the system could pay more attention to the saturation uncommon map if it deems that this map is the salient map.
In the model (1.2) of the capillary relation, all these intermediate processes occur with constant saturation and can be represented by vertical straight lines.
The saturation of soil with waste-water led to increasing concentrations of harmful metallic and organic substances thereby impairing the quality of ground water.
The laser energy term appears within the exponential term and the saturation level is expected at lower concentrations at higher laser energies.
Cyanosis was moderate, with peripheral oxygen saturation around 80% at rest, and 70% while crying.
Notwithstanding this, the unoxidized nature of these sediments indicates more-orless permanent water saturation.
Estimates of the critical number of active nuclei for saturation and cavity suppression which agree with experimental results are given.
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