SATURATION POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saturation point mean? 

• SATURATION POINT (noun)
  The noun SATURATION POINT has 1 sense:

1. (chemistry) the stage at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution or in a vapor

  Familiarity information: SATURATION POINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SATURATION POINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(chemistry) the stage at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution or in a vapor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("saturation point" is a kind of...):

saturation (a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saturation point"):

dew point (the temperature at which the water vapor in the air becomes saturated and condensation begins)