Both Uses of
saturate
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The bobbins are saturated in hot paraffin wax….†
Chpt 5 *
- —It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(saturate) to completely wet
or:
to fillin various senses, including:- chemistry: saturate a solution -- to fill a solution with as much of something as it can hold
- business: saturate a market -- to fill a market with a good
- advertising: saturation advertising -- to advertise a great deal
- military: saturation bombing -- to bomb an area extensively
- color theory: color saturation -- color intensity
- biology: saturated fat -- filled with hydrogen atoms (most people eat more than is healthy)
- physics: magnetic saturation -- intensity of a magnetic charge