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Noun saturation has 4 senses

impregnation, saturation - the process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether"
--₁ is a kind of permeation, pervasion, suffusion
--₁ is a part of plastination
saturation - the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid
--₂ is a kind of filling

Derived form: verb saturate₁
saturation - a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence
--₃ is a kind of condition, status
--₃ has particulars: saturation point
saturation, chroma, intensity, vividness - chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vividness of hue
--₄ is a kind of color property
--₄ is a substance of
chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour