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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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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