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- English Word Saturant Definition A substance used to neutralize or saturate the affinity of another substance.
- English Word Saturant Definition An antacid, as magnesia, used to correct acidity of the stomach.
- English Word Saturate Definition To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
- English Word Saturate Definition To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
- English Word Saturate Definition Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.
- English Word Saturated Definition of Saturate
- English Word Saturated Definition Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.
- English Word Saturated Definition Having its affinity satisfied; combined with all it can hold; -- said of certain atoms, radicals, or compounds; thus, methane is a saturated compound. Contrasted with unsaturated.
- English Word Saturating Definition of Saturate
- English Word Saturation Definition The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.
- English Word Saturation Definition The act, process, or result of saturating a substance, or of combining it to its fullest extent.
- English Word Saturation Definition Freedom from mixture or dilution with white; purity; -- said of colors.
- English Word Saturator Definition One who, or that which, saturates.
- English Word Saturday Definition The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday.
- English Word Saturity Definition The state of being saturated; fullness of supply.
- English Word Saturn Definition One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
- English Word Saturn Definition One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.
- English Word Saturn Definition The metal lead.
- English Word Saturnalia Definition The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.
- English Word Saturnalia Definition Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.