densification

American  

[dens-uh-fi-kay-shuhn] / ˌdɛns ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

plural

densifications

1. the act or process of making or becoming denser, as a material substance, population, urban development, etc.

2. Statistics. Statistics. the process of filling in gaps in a visualization of data by various strategies, such as combining data from different sources or using calculations to project intervening data between established data points.

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Other Word Forms

• dedensification noun
• overdensification noun
• redensification noun

Example Sentences

“It’s the development question, the densification question, the gentrification question.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

The project breaks with the philosophy of the state’s housing policy, which has long been focused on urban densification.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2023

Speaking from a housing development in London, Mr Sunak said the new funding for London would help drive densification and regenerate unused brownfield land.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2023

Japan’s dense, rapidly expanding cites needed further densification, and “Metabolists” like Mr. Isozaki believed that cellular biological growth provided a model for architecture.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022

If this action is accompanied by some actual densification of the fissured chill, then we have a result that possibly conflicts with the example of condensation from chilling cited by Dr. Percy.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various