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dense
[ dens ]
adjective
- having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact:
a dense forest;
dense population.
Synonyms: impenetrable, teeming
- stupid; slow-witted; dull.
- intense; extreme:
dense ignorance.
- relatively opaque; transmitting little light, as a photographic negative, optical glass, or color.
- difficult to understand or follow because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style:
a dense philosophical essay.
- Mathematics. of or relating to a subset of a topological space in which every neighborhood of every point in the space contains at least one point of the subset.
dense
/ dɛns /
adjective
- thickly crowded or closely set
a dense crowd
- thick; impenetrable
a dense fog
- physics having a high density
- stupid; dull; obtuse
- (of a photographic negative) having many dark or exposed areas
- (of an optical glass, colour, etc) transmitting little or no light
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Derived Forms
- ˈdensely, adverb
- ˈdenseness, noun
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Other Words From
- densely adverb
- denseness noun
- non·denseness noun
- super·dense adjective
- ultra·dense adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dense1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dense1
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Example Sentences
He had a special knife designed to cut the dense loaf, and a ceremony to precede cutting the cake.
The narrowest piece of land was at Panama, but it was covered in dense, mountainous jungle.
For those in the dense forests, beaches, and towns of West Africa, it is a real threat.
These days they are occasional meteorological irruptions, white river mists, not dense and toxic industrial pea-soupers.
In the dense atmosphere of tobacco and conspiracy, one hot topic has been the death penalty.
No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.
The road on which the Federals were marching was narrow and on each side lined with dense underbrush.
The advance had to be carefully made, for the country was rough, wooded, and covered with a dense undergrowth of bushes.
Not having completed the loading of his gun, Tom hastily rode behind a dense bush, and concealed himself as well as he could.
Tom jumped behind a bush, and as they passed tried to fire, but the foliage was so dense that he failed to get a good aim.
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