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dense
[ dens ]
adjective
- having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact:
a dense forest;
dense population.
Synonyms: impenetrable, teeming
- 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.
dense
/ dɛns /
adjective
- 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
Derived Forms
- ˈdensely, adverb
- ˈdenseness, noun
Other Words From
- densely adverb
- denseness noun
- non·denseness noun
- super·dense adjective
- ultra·dense adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of dense1
Word History and Origins
Origin of dense1
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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