absättigen

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German

Etymology

ab- +‎ sättigen

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): ,
  • Hyphenation: ab‧sät‧ti‧gen
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Verb

absättigen (weak, third-person singular present sättigt ab, past tense sättigte ab, past participle abgesättigt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (chemistry) to be incapable of any further reaction or bond, to be saturated
    • 2019 May 7 (last accessed), “Hydrierung”, in Chemie.de Lexikon:
      Dabei werden die Doppelbindungen in den Fettsäure-Ketten der Fettmoleküle mit Wasserstoff abgesättigt
      Here the double bonds in the fatty-acid chain of the fat molecules are made incapable of any further bond with hydrogen.
    • 2009, Gerhard Klebe, Wirkstoffdesign: Entwurf und Wirkung von Arzneistoffen, 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, published 2009, →ISBN, page 243:
      Betrachtet man jedoch das freie, nicht proteingebundene Molekül und minimiert dessen Geometrie im isolierten Zustand, so wird es eine Konformation annehmen, in der sich die Wasserstoffbrücken intramolekular absättigen […].
      But if you look at the free not protein bound molecule and minimize its geometry in isolated state, it will conform so that the hydrogen bonds saturate each other intramolecularly.
  2. (psychology) to satisfy (a need, desire)
    • 1968, Kurt Brem, Pädagogische Psychologie der Bildungsinstitutionen: Die Unterrichtsinstitutionen, München: E. Reinhardt, published 1968, page 21:
      Zuerst gibt es — beim Kleinkind — nur Primärverstärker, d. h. Situationen, die Vitalbedürfnisse stillen und diejenigen Verhaltensformen wiederholt auftreten lassen, die solche Bedürfnisse absättigen.
      At first there are — with the toddler — only primary amplifiers, i. e. situations that quench vital needs and let the kind of behavior repeated, that satisfies those needs.

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