Definition of saturated_fat
1. saturated [ a ] wet through and through; thoroughly wet
Examples:
"stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"
"a shirt saturated with perspiration"
"his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"
"the speaker's sodden collar"
"soppy clothes"
(Leon Uris, Mila 8....)
Grabski sat in a sweat saturated undershirt , cursing the excessive heat which clamped an uneasy stillness before sundown .
Synonyms soaked sodden soaking saturated drenched sopping soppy Related Terms wet2. saturated [ a ] being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance
Examples:
"a saturated solution"
(A. N. Nagaraj and L. M. Black, "Localization of...)
The precipitate was washed twice with an 80 % saturated solution of * * f , dissolved in a small quantity of 0.1 M neutral phosphate buffer , dialyzed against cold distilled_water till free from ammonium_ions , and lyophilized using liquid_nitrogen .
Synonyms saturated concentrated Related Terms unsaturated supersaturated3. saturated [ a ] (chemistry) used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled
Examples:
"saturated fats"
4. saturated [ a ] (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black
Synonyms pure saturated Related Terms unsaturated intense
