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Saturation

noun

The process of totally saturating something with a substance. Synonym: impregnation. "The saturation of cotton with ether"

The act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid.

A condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence.

Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue. Synonyms: chroma, intensity, vividness.

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"Saturation" Quotes from Famous Books

... temples better than all the other monuments. The narrow strip of fat black land along the Nile produces generally its three crops a year. It is much too valuable to use as a cemetery. But more than that, it is subject to periodic saturation with water during the inundation, and is, therefore, unsuitable for the burials of a nation which wished to preserve the contents of the graves. On the other hand, the desert, which bounds this fertile strip so closely that a dozen steps will usually carry ...

— The Egyptian Conception of Immortality • George Andrew Reisner

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