Definition of "desaturated" [desaturated]

• Simple past tense and past participle of desaturate. (verb)

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• "The Brookhaven scientists were trying to understand the factors that affect where carbon-carbon double bonds are placed in fatty acids, the building blocks of oils and fats, when they are "desaturated" - that is, when a desaturase enzyme removes hydrogen from the carbon chain."
• "For example, primary attitude control is maintained by the big control moment gyroscopes in the Z1 truss on the US side, but occasionally these need to be 'desaturated' which requires the firing of the Russian attitude control jets on Zvezda."
• "There was a very strong, desaturated quality to Band of Brothers."