# Saturation

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**Saturation**, **saturated**, **unsaturation** or **unsaturated** may refer to:

## Chemistry

- [Saturated and unsaturated compounds](/source/Saturated_and_unsaturated_compounds), a classification of compounds related to their ability to resist addition reactions - [Degree of unsaturation](/source/Degree_of_unsaturation) - [Saturated fat](/source/Saturated_fat) or [saturated fatty acid](/source/Saturated_fatty_acid) - [Unsaturated fat](/source/Unsaturated_fat) or [unsaturated fatty acid](/source/Unsaturated_fatty_acid) - Non-susceptibility of an organometallic compound to [oxidative addition](/source/Oxidative_addition)
- Saturation of protein [binding sites](/source/Binding_sites)
- [Saturation of enzymes](/source/Enzyme_kinetics#General_principles) with a substrate
- Saturation of a solute in a solution, as related to the solute's maximum [solubility](/source/Solubility) at equilibrium - [Supersaturation](/source/Supersaturation), where the concentration of a solute exceeds its maximum solubility at equilibrium - [Undersaturation](/source/Undersaturation), where the concentration of a solute is less than its maximum solubility at equilibrium

## Biology

- [Oxygen saturation](/source/Oxygenation_(medicine)), a clinical measure of the amount of oxygen in a patient's blood
- [Saturation pollination](/source/Saturation_pollination), a pollination technique
- [Saturated mutagenesis](/source/Saturated_mutagenesis), a form of site-directed mutagenesis
- [Saturation (genetic)](/source/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](/source/Great_Oxygenation_Event)"
- Environmental saturation, environmental resistance to population growth: see "[Logistic function](/source/Logistic_function)" and "[Carrying capacity](/source/Carrying_capacity)"

## Physics

- [Colorfulness § Saturation](/source/Colorfulness#Saturation), see also: "[Saturation intent](/source/Saturation_intent)", a rendering intent in color management
- Thermodynamic state at lower temperature bound of [superheated steam](/source/Superheated_steam)
- [Saturation (magnetic)](/source/Saturation_(magnetic)), the state when a magnetic material is fully magnetized
- [Saturated fluid](/source/Saturated_fluid) or saturated vapor, contains as much thermal energy as it can without boiling or condensing - [Saturated steam](/source/Saturated_steam)
- [Dew point](/source/Dew_point), which is a temperature that occurs when atmospheric [relative humidity](/source/Relative_humidity) reaches 100% and the air is saturated with moisture
- [Saturated absorption](/source/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](/source/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 [transistor § Transistor as a switch](/source/Transistor#Transistor_as_a_switch)
- [Saturation current](/source/Saturation_current), limit of flowing current through a device

## Hydrology

- [Saturated zone](/source/Saturated_zone), below the groundwater table
- [Unsaturated zone](/source/Unsaturated_zone), above the groundwater table
- [Soil saturation](/source/Water_content), water content in a soil

## Mathematics

- [Saturation (commutative algebra)](/source/Saturation_(commutative_algebra)), the inverse image of the localization of an ideal or submodule
- [Saturated model](/source/Saturated_model), a concept in mathematical logic
- [Saturation arithmetic](/source/Saturation_arithmetic), in arithmetic, a version of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to fixed range
- [Saturation (graph theory)](/source/Saturation_(graph_theory)), a categorization of vertices in graph theory
- [Saturated measure](/source/Saturated_measure), if every locally measurable set is also measurable
- Saturated [multiplicatively closed sets](/source/Multiplicatively_closed_set), a concept in ring theory

## Music

- "[Saturation (song)](/source/Saturation_(song))", a 1997 single by Australian group [The Superjesus](/source/The_Superjesus)
- [*Saturation* (Urge Overkill album)](/source/Saturation_(Urge_Overkill_album)), 1993
- [*Saturation* (Vas Deferens Organization album)](/source/Saturation_(Vas_Deferens_Organization_album)), 1996
- [*Saturation* (Brockhampton album)](/source/Saturation_(Brockhampton_album)), 2017 (Also see *[Saturation II](/source/Saturation_II)* and *[Saturation III](/source/Saturation_III)*)

## Other uses

- [Market saturation](/source/Market_saturation), in economics
- [Saturation diving](/source/Saturation_diving)

## See also

- [Saturate (disambiguation)](/source/Saturate_(disambiguation))
- [Saturation point (disambiguation)](/source/Saturation_point_(disambiguation))

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