Saturation

Saturation, saturated, unsaturation or unsaturated may refer to:

Chemistry

 * Saturated and unsaturated compounds, a classification of compounds related to their ability to resist addition reactions
 * Degree of unsaturation
 * Saturated fat or saturated fatty acid
 * Unsaturated fat or unsaturated fatty acid
 * Non-susceptibility of an organometallic compound to oxidative addition
 * 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 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, a pollination technique
 * Saturated mutagenesis, a form of site-directed mutagenesis
 * Saturation (genetic), the observed number of mutations relative to the maximum amount possible
 * Ocean saturation, more than 2.3 billion years ago: see "Great Oxygenation Event"
 * Environmental saturation, environmental resistance to population growth: see "Logistic function" and "Carrying capacity"

Physics

 * Colorfulness § Saturation, see also: "Saturation intent", a rendering intent in color management
 * Thermodynamic state at lower temperature bound of superheated steam
 * 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, which is a temperature that occurs when atmospheric relative humidity 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, 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, 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
 * Saturation (Urge Overkill album), 1993
 * Saturation (Vas Deferens Organization album), 1996
 * Saturation (Brockhampton album), 2017 (Also see Saturation II and Saturation III)

Other uses

 * Market saturation, in economics
 * Saturation diving