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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 饱和；饱和状态 a business beset by price wars and market saturation (= the fact that no new customers can be found) 一家受价格战和市场饱和困扰的企业 saturation bombing of the city (= covering the whole city) 对那座城市的全面轰炸 television’s saturation coverage (= so much coverage that it is impossible to avoid or add to it) of the Olympics 电视对奥运会连篇累牍的报道 The company’s sales are now close to saturation in many western countries. 这家公司的产品销售量在许多西方国家已接近饱和。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- market
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chemistry 化学 the degree to which something is absorbed into something else, expressed as a percentage of the greatest possible 饱和度 Was dissolved oxygen in the water greater than 80% of saturation? 水中溶解氧是否大于饱和度的80%？
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from late Latin saturatio(n-), from Latin saturare ‘fill, glut’, from satur ‘full’.