saturation point

Related to saturation point: Saturation temperature, Saturation pressure

saturation point

The point at which a person, place, or thing is completely full and can no longer intake something. It's important not to bombard your class with information, or else they'll reach their saturation point and just tune you out. I feel like the market has reached a saturation point with "smart" technology—people don't want every dang thing in their house wired up to the internet.
See also: point
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

satuˈration point

so full that you cannot add any more: The refugee camps have reached saturation point.
See also: point
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • a different ball of wax
  • wax
  • give rein to
  • give rein to (someone or something)
  • fall for
  • fall for (someone or something)
  • get one's teeth into (something), to
  • squeaky
  • squeaky clean
  • lonesome
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Pollution, road congestion, safety issues and global warming due to the saturation point our roads have reached, and what does our government do?
In many parts of the country, the company has reached the saturation point, where opening new stores starts to cannibalize existing ones.
Beneficial influences in developed countries are likely reaching a saturation point, so a slowdown in the rate of IQ increase is no surprise.
In 1995, Casio released the first consumer digital camera in the Japanese market, just as the film camera market was reaching the saturation point in 1996.
The moisture content of water in oil can now be measured up to the saturation point of the oil, by the ANALEXrs online moisture sensor from KITTIWAKE DEVELOPMENTS LTD.
During the read/write test both systems reached their saturation point at eight CUC, at which point the server running the Solaris 10 OS was 30% faster.
"People could collect [the plants] from ponds or grow them themselves." But each plant eventually reaches a saturation point where it can't store any more arsenic.
If one does select appropriate cases to study (i.e., sampling issue) and an appropriate number of cases (i.e., sample size issue) this should yield thick rich data that reach saturation point.
While many popular conference sessions were devoted to audio conferences, many attendees reported that audio conferences had reached a saturation point.
With Canada-United States trade activity approaching the saturation point, the Greater Sudbury Development Corp, wants to promote investment and technology transfer opportunities with eastern Europe.
Michael O'Leary, the CEO of Europe's leading low-cost airline Ryanair, has said that the low-cost airline market in Europe still has a way to go before hitting saturation point.
Relative humidity relates to the saturation point, the amount of water vapor in the air divided by the maximum amount of water the air is capable of holding at a given temperature.
Renault believes that the world's most affluent markets in Europe, America and Japan have now reached saturation point in terms of sales.
According to Allen Burnes, Motorola's VP for emerging markets, first world markets are reaching saturation point and the competition hustle is hotting up in the increasingly lucrative African telecoms environment.