Usually means: Excess solute beyond saturation point.
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  1. supersaturation: Merriam-Webster
  2. supersaturation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. supersaturation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. supersaturation: Wordnik
  5. supersaturation: Wiktionary
  6. supersaturation: Dictionary.com
  7. Supersaturation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Supersaturation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. supersaturation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Supersaturation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. supersaturation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. supersaturation: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Supersaturation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. supersaturation: Legal dictionary

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  1. supersaturation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. supersaturation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. supersaturation: Medical dictionary

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  1. Supersaturation: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (supersaturation)

noun:  (physics) The condition of a solution being more highly concentrated than is normally possible.
noun:  (physics) the condition of a vapour having a higher saturation vapour pressure than is normally possible.
noun:  (physiology) The condition of a solution of gases in a tissue having a higher concentration in terms of sum of partial pressures than the ambient pressure.

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