nowhere-dense

[ noh-hwair-dens, -wair- ]

/ ˈnoʊ ʰwɛərˈdɛns, -wɛər- /

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adjective Mathematics.

(of a set in a topological space) having a closure that contains no open set with any points in it; nondense.

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Unlike the characters he plays, men who came from nowhere and, as he himself puts it, “go home to nobody.”
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Rather, all of the manufactured antibodies are all stirred up but have nowhere to go.
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Conservatives get nowhere by demanding “deregulation,” because liberals are correct that most Americans want clean water.
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Nowhere to be found is the anguish, the drama, the pain of an athlete on that level who considering walking away.
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He had a special knife designed to cut the dense loaf, and a ceremony to precede cutting the cake.
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Nowhere can be found a region capable of supporting a larger population to the square mile than Lombardy.
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No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.
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The road on which the Federals were marching was narrow and on each side lined with dense underbrush.
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The advance had to be carefully made, for the country was rough, wooded, and covered with a dense undergrowth of bushes.
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But Perpignan being at the end of everywhere and leading nowhere attracts very few visitors.
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