desaturatev.
/diːˈsatjʊreɪt/ transitive. To cause to become unsaturated, to make less saturated.
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1911 Engineer 10 Mar. 243/1 The statement that the blood is desaturated in its passage through the lung requires proof.
1931 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 285 At very low intensities, under ordinary conditions of vision..all sensations are completely de-saturated, and the spectrum is simply a band of grey.
1970 Amateur Photographer 11 Mar. 62/3 Distant colours are desaturated by white light scattered by the atmosphere.
Derivatives
deˈsaturated adj.
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1962 H. C. Weston Sight, Light & Work (ed. 2) i. 17 White is thus the de-saturated ‘colour’ par excellence.
desatuˈration n.
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1911 Engineer 10 Mar. 243/1 Desaturation of the blood in its passage through the lungs.
1931 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 287 De-saturation is not, in fact, complete in the case of spectral colours... Even if there be no complete de-saturation, the problem of explaining a partial de-saturation is essentially the same.
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