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What is "supersaturated"

The Collaborative International Dictionary
supersaturated

concentrated \concentrated\ adj.

  1. Having a high density of (the indicated substance); as, a narrow thread of concentrated ore.

    Note: [Narrower terms: undiluted (vs. diluted)]

  2. Gathered together or made less diffuse; as, their concentrated efforts; his concentrated attention. Opposite of distributed or diffused.

    Note: [Narrower terms: bunched, bunchy, clustered; centered, centred, centralized, focused; undivided] [Also See: compact.]

  3. Intense; in an extreme degree; -- of mental phenomena; as, her concentrated passion held them at bay.

  4. being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance. Opposite of dilute or unsaturated.

    Note: [Narrower terms: supersaturated]

    Syn: saturated.

  5. reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; as, concentrated sulfuric acid. Opposite of diluted.

    Syn: condensed.

  6. characterized by intensity; especially when imposed from without; -- of actions; as, concentrated study.

    Syn: intensive.

  7. characterized by mental concentration.

    Syn: intent.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
supersaturated

1778, past participle adjective from verb supersaturate (1756), from super- + saturate (v.).

Wiktionary
supersaturated

  1. 1 (context chemistry physics of a solution English) More concentrated than is normally possible. 2 (context physics of a vapor English) Having a vapor pressure higher than is normally possible. v

  2. (en-past of: supersaturate)

WordNet
supersaturated

adj. being more concentrated than normally possible and therefore not in equilibrium

Usage examples of "supersaturated".

The air is supersaturated with anxiety, leaving the taste of metal on his tongue.

Miniature drifts had formed in shifting chevrons a few centimeters across, growing from the chips like crystals growing in a supersaturated solution.

Each exhalation condensed into a cloud of vapor that hung in the supersaturated air, refusing to dissipate.

DOOM PATROL is less a surreal fantasy than it is a naturalistic rendering of our supersaturated cultural space.

Certainly wizards often gathered clouds and supersaturated them to create rain for crops and drinking water, but nobody ever made snow.

It was as if Mother had dropped a grain of dust into a supersaturated solution, and a crystal had immediately formed.

Behind the asteroid a tremendous vacuum formed, which the surrounding atmosphere rushed to fill, creating a tail of supersaturated air from above the Arctic Ocean and a wake of wind which curled off, forming row upon row of super cyclones like giant eddies behind the paddle of a boat.

The constant storms create a supersaturated electrical and magnetic field.