noun [U]
1 (often figurative) the state or process that happens when no more of sth can be be accepted or added because there is already too much of it or too many of them:
a business beset by price wars and market saturation (= the fact that no new customers can be found) * saturation bombing of the city (= covering the whole city) * There was saturation coverage (= so much that it was impossible to avoid it or add to it) of the event by the media.
2 (chemistry) the degree to which sth is absorbed in sth else, expressed as a PERCENTAGE of the greatest possible:
Was dissolved oxygen in the water greater than 80% of saturation?
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