All 4 Uses
saturate
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- We began this morning to saturate the air over their surface force with P-3C Orion patrol aircraft, assisted by British Nimrods operating out of Scotland.†
Chpt 6. *saturate = to completely wet; or to fill
- Farther aft, saturated steam in the "outside" or nonradioactive loop of the heat exchange system emerged through clusters of control valves to strike the blades of the high-pressure turbine.†
Chpt 7.
- You were in a room in intensive care, with a patient on hundred-percent oxygen, the air and bedclothes saturated with oxygen, and you were going to flick your goddamned Bic!†
Chpt 11.
- In an instant the atmospheric pressure in the old submarine tripled as her every part was saturated with an explosive air-gas mixture.†
Chpt 14.
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)