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Definition of Oversaturate
1. v. t. To saturate to excess.
Definition of Oversaturate
1. Verb. To saturate to excess. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oversaturate
1. [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversaturate
Literary usage of Oversaturate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"The proteid compound would be digested away, leaving the bile acids free in the
solution. 2. To oversaturate large quantities of blood with many volumes of ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"... oversensitive- ness just mentioned is to oversaturate the field coils; or, in
other words, to wind them so that the soft-iron core will be fully ..."
3. Alternating-current Electricity and Its Applications to Industry by William Henry Timbie, Henry Harold Higbie (1916)
"... more than with air core when the current increases on short circuit to values
which would oversaturate the iron unless a great quantity of it were used. ..."
4. Alternating-current Electricity and Its Applications to Industry: Second Course by William Henry Timbie, Henry Harold Higbie (1916)
"... more than with air core when the current increases on short circuit to values
which would oversaturate the iron unless a great quantity of it were used. ..."
5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"Care should be taken not to oversaturate the material in the respiratory chamber,
lest the ether might flow over the patient's face. ..."
6. Metabolism and Practical Medicine by Karl Harko Noorden, Carl von Noorden, Isaac Walker Hall (1907)
"The HCl is not wholly absent, but it is not secreted in such quantity as to
oversaturate the food taken, as it is in health. Hence it is that most books ..."
7. The Organic Constituents of Plants and Vegetable Substances and Their by Georg Christoph Wittstein (1878)
"... the last traces of alcohol, filter, oversaturate slightly with acetic acid,
collect the deposit, wash with cold water, and dry with a very gentle heat. ..."
8. Design of Electrical Machinery: A Manual for the Use, Primarily, of Students by William Thomas Ryan (1912)
"The magnetic density in the teeth must not tend to oversaturate them, but on the
other hand should nearly saturate them so as to prevent a shifting of the ..."
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