dense
having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest;dense population.
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.
Origin of dense
1Other words for dense
1 | congested, crammed, teeming; impenetrable |
Other words from dense
- densely, adverb
- denseness, noun
- non·dense·ness, noun
- su·per·dense, adjective
- ul·tra·dense, adjective
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How to use dense in a sentence
Through drying, the team says they’re able to create a fertilizer that’s just as nutrient-dense by mass as a typical conventional fertilizer.
Your pee could be the golden ticket to a greener world | Ula Chrobak | November 19, 2020 | Popular-ScienceFor most liquids, cooling makes them become denser and more difficult to compress.
Supercooled water has been caught morphing between two forms | Emily Conover | November 19, 2020 | Science NewsThat dense head gives you enough power to actually chop through larger branches.
Snowshoeing and cross-country skiing are easily accessible from your doorstep, as well as some adventurous backcountry terrain through dense glades.
Patchy areas of dense fog may develop in the early morning, but skies are generally partly cloudy.
PM Update: Warm, stagnant air continues into tomorrow | A. Camden Walker | November 8, 2020 | Washington Post
In its own weird way, by the end, The Colbert Report was as densely serialized as Lost.
The End of Truthiness: Stephen Colbert’s Sublime Finale | Noel Murray | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDensely populated and impoverished, the community was struggling long before Ebola arrived.
And the reasons for that suggest just how densely complicated the Mideast quagmire has become.
Obama’s Arab Backers May Draw the U.S. Deep Into the Mideast Quagmire | Jamie Dettmer | September 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the mid-20th century, the 15.5-acre island had become the most densely populated place on Earth.
New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the nation.
A Mob-Defying Former Mayor Knows Why New Jersey Is So Corrupt | Burt Ross | February 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST"I believe that is what they call it," Gordon answered, gazing back at her with his densely clouded blue eyes.
Confidence | Henry JamesIt is of an exceedingly hard, densely compact nature; from its hardness difficult to work, but susceptible of a very high polish.
Asbestos | Robert H. JonesThus they made their way in good array down the Rue Saint-Antoine, which was densely crowded with men, women, and children.
The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche | Anatole FranceThis part is really the city; beyond is a suburb laid out in gardens densely inhabited.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia AustrianThey are densely ignorant though they may be fluent talkers.
The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) | W. Grant Hague
British Dictionary definitions for dense
/ (dɛns) /
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
Origin of dense
1Derived forms of dense
- densely, adverb
- denseness, noun
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