Usually means: Contains double or triple bonds.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. unsaturated: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unsaturated: Merriam-Webster
  3. unsaturated: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unsaturated: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unsaturated: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unsaturated: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unsaturated, unsaturated: Wordnik
  8. unsaturated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unsaturated: Wiktionary
  10. unsaturated: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unsaturated: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unsaturated: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unsaturated: Dictionary.com
  14. unsaturated: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Unsaturated (hydrocarbon), Unsaturated: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Unsaturated: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. unsaturated: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. unsaturated: Rhymezone
  19. Unsaturated: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. unsaturated: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. unsaturated: FreeDictionary.org
  22. unsaturated: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. unsaturated: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unsaturated: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Unsaturated (hydrocarbon), unsaturated: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. unsaturated: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. General Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Unsaturated (hydrocarbon), unsaturated: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (chemistry, of a solution) Not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a solute at the same temperature.
adjective:  (chemistry) Of a compound containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond, especially of an organic compound having one or more double bonds or triple bonds between carbon atoms.
adjective:  (of a colour) Not chromatically pure; diluted.

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