different between oxygen vs desat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French oxygène (originally in the form principe oxygène, a variant of principe oxigine ‘acidifying principle’, suggested by Lavoisier), from Ancient Greek ???? (oxús, “sharp”) + ????? (génos, “birth”), referring to oxygen's supposed role in the formation of acids.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?k's?j?n, IPA^(key): /??ks?d??n/

Noun

oxygen (countable and uncountable, plural oxygens)

2. The chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 15.9994. It is a colorless and odorless gas.

   Hypernym: chalcogen

3. Molecular oxygen (O₂), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature, also called dioxygen.
4. (medicine) A mixture of oxygen and other gases, administered to a patient to help them breathe.
5. (countable) An atom of this element.
   • 2013, Spencer L. Seager, Michael R. Slabaugh, Chemistry for Today: General, Organic, and Biochemistry (page 479)

     Look first at any structure to see if there is a carbon with two oxygens attached. Hemiacetals, hemiketals, acetals, and ketals are all alike in that regard.

6. (figuratively) A condition or environment in which something can thrive.

   Silence is the oxygen of shame.

   They hoped to starve the terrorists of the oxygen of publicity.

Synonyms

• sourstuff
• E948 when used as a packaging gas

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Burmese: ??????????? (aukhcigyang)

Translations

References

• Oxygen on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

See also

• ozone

Danish

Noun

oxygen n (singular definite oxygenet, not used in plural form)

1. oxygen

   Synonym: ilt

German

Adjective

oxygen

1. (chemistry) oxygenic

   Antonym: anoxygen

Declension

Related terms

• Oxygen

Swedish

Noun

oxygen n

1. (archaic, strictly sciences) oxygen

   Synonym: syre

English

Etymology

Abbreviated form of desaturate.

Verb

desat (third-person singular simple present desats, present participle desatting, simple past and past participle desatted)

1. (medicine, intransitive) (of the oxygen saturation level in one's haemoglobin) To decrease.
2. (medicine, of a person) To undergo a decrease in the oxygen saturation level in the haemoglobin).

Noun

desat (plural desats)

1. (medicine) Desaturation.

Anagrams

• AEDST, Deats, Stade, Stead, TASed, asdet, dates, sadet, sated, stade, stead, tased, tsade

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /d??zat/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /de?zat/
• Rhymes: -at

Verb

desat m (feminine desada, masculine plural desats, feminine plural desades)

1. past participle of desar