Sa"trap*y (?; 277), n.; pl. Satrapies (#). [L. satrapia, satrapea, Gr.
&?;: cf. F. satrapie.] The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a
principality. Milton.
Sat"su*ma ware" (? or ?). (Fine Arts) A kind of ornamental hard-glazed
pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands.
Sat"u*ra*ble (?; 135), a. [L. saturabilis: cf. F. saturable.] Capable
of being saturated; admitting of saturation. -- Sat`u*ra*bil"i*ty (#),
n.
Sat"u*rant (?), a. [L. saturans, p. pr. See Saturate.] Impregnating to
the full; saturating.
Sat"u*rant, n. 1. (Chem.) A substance used to neutralize or saturate
the affinity of another substance.
2. (Med.) An antacid, as magnesia, used to correct acidity of the
stomach.
Sat"u*rate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saturated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Saturating.] [L. saturatus, p. p. of saturare to saturate, fr. satur
full of food, sated. See Satire.] 1. To cause to become completely
penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald
meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.
Macaulay.
Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind.
Emerson.
2. (Chem.) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by
chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate
phosphorus with chlorine.
Sat"u*rate (?), p. a. [L. saturatus, p. p.] Filled to repletion;
saturated; soaked.
Dries his feathers saturate with dew.
Cowper.
The sand beneath our feet is saturate With blood of martyrs.
Longfellow.
Sat"u*ra`ted (?), a. 1. Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or
in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated
solution of salt.
2. (Chem.) Having its affinity satisfied; combined with all it can
hold; -- said of certain atoms, radicals, or compounds; thus, methane
is a saturated compound. Contrasted with unsaturated.
A saturated compound may exchange certain ingredients for others, but
can not take on more without such exchange.
Saturated color (Optics), a color not diluted with white; a pure
unmixed color, like those of the spectrum.
Sat`u*ra"tion (?), n. [L. saturatio: cf. F. saturation.] 1. The act of
saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or
impregnation.
2. (Chem.) The act, process, or result of saturating a substance, or of
combining it to its fullest extent.
3. (Optics) Freedom from mixture or dilution with white; purity; --
said of colors.
The degree of saturation of a color is its relative purity, or freedom
from admixture with white.
Sat"u*ra`tor (?), n. [L.] One who, or that which, saturates.
Sat"ur*day (?; 48), n. [OE. Saterday, AS. Sæterdæg, Sæterndæg,
Sæternesdæg, literally, Saturn's day, fr. L. Saturnus Saturn + AS. dæg
day; cf. L. dies Saturni.] The seventh or last day of the week; the day
following Friday and preceding Sunday.
Sa*tu"ri*ty (?), n. [L. saturitas, fr. satur full of food, sated.] The
state of being saturated; fullness of supply. [Obs.] Warner.
Sa"turn (?), n. [L. Saturnus, literally, the sower, fr. serere, satum,
to sow. See Season.] 1. (Roman Myth.) One of the elder and principal
deities, the son of Cœlus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father
of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later
CHro`nos, Time.
2. (Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude
to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy
thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and
eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round
the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a
remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.