adjective
- capable of being saturated or filled to capacity
Usage: technical; chemistry; physics
Examples
- The saturable reactor could absorb only a limited amount of magnetic flux.
- Scientists studied the saturable absorption properties of the new material.
- The saturable core transformer reached its maximum capacity.
- Engineers designed a saturable inductor for the power supply circuit.
- The saturable absorber helped control the laser’s output intensity.
- Researchers tested the saturable binding sites on the protein molecule.