saturation

Other forms of saturation

plural

saturations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about saturation

What does saturation mean?

saturation means "the process of totally saturating something with a substance". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saturation?

saturation has 4 syllables: sat-u-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˌsætʃɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for saturation?

Close synonyms include impregnation, chroma, intensity, vividness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saturation a common word?

saturation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with saturation?

133 words rhyme with saturation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.