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dense

[ dens ]

adjective

, dens·er, dens·est.
  1. having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact:

    a dense forest;

    dense population.

    Synonyms: impenetrable, teeming

  2. stupid; slow-witted; dull.
  3. intense; extreme:

    dense ignorance.

  4. relatively opaque; transmitting little light, as a photographic negative, optical glass, or color.
  5. difficult to understand or follow because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style:

    a dense philosophical essay.

  6. 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.


dense

/ dɛns /

adjective

  1. thickly crowded or closely set

    a dense crowd

  2. thick; impenetrable

    a dense fog

  3. physics having a high density
  4. stupid; dull; obtuse
  5. (of a photographic negative) having many dark or exposed areas
  6. (of an optical glass, colour, etc) transmitting little or no light
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈdensely, adverb
  • ˈdenseness, noun
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Other Words From

  • densely adverb
  • denseness noun
  • non·denseness noun
  • super·dense adjective
  • ultra·dense adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dense1

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Latin dēnsus “thick”; cognate with Greek dasýs
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dense1

C15: from Latin densus thick; related to Greek dasus thickly covered with hair or leaves
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Example Sentences

In Guerrero, a series of brazen violent acts emphasized the chaotic nature of the state’s criminal topography, where a dense network of gangs compete for the right to sell drugs and extort money from business owners.

On Friday morning, a pair of sheriff’s deputies scrambled up a hillside in Camarillo Heights after residents noticed smoke billowing out of dense brush.

Beverly Hills A dense concentration of high-profile places to go and things to do in the Golden Triangle certainly make this swanky slice of Greater L.A. seem walkable.

I have a theory: Downtown L.A. ranks near the top of a lot of walkability rankings because it’s just expected that a dense urban core that serves as a major transit hub would, by default, be a great place for people to live their best car-free lives.

You could spend days under your headphones unraveling the dense weave of riffs, licks, rhythms and languages in this song.

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