densification
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the act or process of making or becoming denser, as a material substance, population, urban development, etc.
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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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The city already has the tallest building in the South West - the 23-storey Bickley Point - and the latest plans for Plymouth include establishing taller buildings in what is referred to as "densification".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
“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
“This sets the foundation for densification in different parts of the county,” said Silver Spring resident Alan Bowser, president of the Montgomery County Civic Federation, a coalition of homeowner and civic associations.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 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
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