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the state or process that happens when no more of something can be accepted or added because there is already too much of it or too many of them 飽和；飽和狀態 a business beset by price wars and market saturation (= the fact that no new customers can be found) 一家受價格戰和市場飽和困擾的企業 saturation bombing of the city (= covering the whole city) 對那座城市的全面轟炸 television’s saturation coverage (= so much coverage that it is impossible to avoid or add to it) of the Olympics 電視對奧運會連篇累牍的報道 The company’s sales are now close to saturation in many western countries. 這家公司的産品銷售量在許多西方國家已接近飽和。
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chemistry 化學 the degree to which something is absorbed into something else, expressed as a percentage of the greatest possible 飽和度 Was dissolved oxygen in the water greater than 80% of saturation? 水中溶解氧是否大於飽和度的80%？
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from late Latin saturatio(n-), from Latin saturare ‘fill, glut’, from satur ‘full’.