densify
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make or become denser.
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to impregnate (wood) with additives under heat and pressure in order to achieve greater density and hardness.
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Statistics. to fill 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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“As the urban unincorporated area has continued to densify, we’ve looked at ourselves and said, ‘Oh wow, there’s several hundred thousand people here in the urban unincorporated area,’” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
Jacquet explained that, during the 14th and 15th centuries, the city began to densify, and buildings began to multiply, particularly in the Vieux Lyon neighborhood, which abuts the River Saône.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022
We’ve done better on the device side, but with infrastructure, you have to densify the network.
From The Verge ● Jan. 11, 2022
The former dean of the architecture school, Jean-Claude Marsan, argued for the university to densify its existing campus rather than build a second one, out of fears the new campus wouldn’t be economically viable.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2019
"You should be able to make ball bearings by molding, then densify them by electroplating."
From Junior Achievement by Schoenherr, John
“They want to be socially distanced, but they can’t, because we’re not allowed to reduce capacity because of COVID. We are required to teach in fully densified classrooms.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
The densified propellant “provides greater propellant margin for increased reliability,” the company said in a statement.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2018
Hu and his team spent several hours making each coffee-table book–size slab of densified wood used for testing.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2018
The densified wood is also substantially harder, more scratch-resistant and more impact-resistant.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2018
She saw the dull brown tint creep into it as it densified, and she knew that it was smoke.
From The Hound From The North by Bull, Charles Livingston
“It’s kind of a losing battle, especially when you keep densifying your chips,” said Tearse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
“You're talking about densifying development and putting public parking literally a foot away from critical habitat,” Gann says.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 7, 2023
“By enabling all of us to play an even more important role in this critical supply chain and densifying our southern network, we are accelerating sustainable, profitable growth,” Robinson said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
The study authors also indicated that densifying suburbs could in fact potentially increase carbon emissions by creating their own sprawl and offshoot suburbs, as well as concentrating affluence.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2022
It was as though the gradual densifying of this belt of woodland country had culminated upon the hill.
From The Hound From The North by Bull, Charles Livingston
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