Definitions for dense
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Princeton's WordNet(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. dense, heavy, impenetrable(adj)

   permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

   "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"

2. dense, thick(adj)

   hard to pass through because of dense growth

   "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"

3. dense(adj)

   having high relative density or specific gravity

   "dense as lead"

4. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow(adj)

   slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

   "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"

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1. dense(Adjective)

   Having relatively high density.

   Etymology: From densus.

2. dense(Adjective)

   Compact; crowded together.

   Etymology: From densus.

3. dense(Adjective)

   Thick; difficult to penetrate.

   Etymology: From densus.

4. dense(Adjective)

   Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

   Etymology: From densus.

5. dense(Adjective)

   Obscure, or difficult to understand.

   Etymology: From densus.

6. dense(Adjective)

   Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on s for mathematical definition.

   Etymology: From densus.

7. dense(Adjective)

   Of a person, slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.

   Etymology: From densus.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dense(adj)

   having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog

   Etymology: [L. densus; akin to Gr. thick with hair or leaves: cf. F. dense.]

2. Dense(adj)

   stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance

   Etymology: [L. densus; akin to Gr. thick with hair or leaves: cf. F. dense.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dense

   Dense is a 2004 American television short film directed and written by Vanessa Williams and Shari Poindexter, and aired on the TV channel Showtime.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dense

   dens, adj. thick, close, compact: impenetrably stupid.—n. a thicket.—adv. Dense′ly.—ns. Dense′ness; Dens′ity, the quality of being dense: the proportion of mass to bulk or volume: the quantity of matter per unit of bulk. [L. densus, thick.]

Entomology(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dense

   thickly crowded together.

Anagrams for dense »

1. needs

2. denes

How to pronounce dense?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dense in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dense in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of dense in a Sentence

1. Elena Tovar:

   The major hypothesis that can be taken away from this study is interesting but not so mind-blowing - eating more frequently throughout the day leads to a greater intake of healthier, lower calorically-dense foods, which in turn leads to a lower overall caloric intake and BMI, this just makes sense - eating more often staves off hunger so that we don’t end up eating whatever we can get our hands on later on, thereby making it more likely that the foods we eat are healthier.

2. Eric Abbruzzese:

   Engagement is the make or break for any program like this, something dense like cybersecurity may have more issue in adapting content to a visual-first medium than something like biology.

3. Daniel Perley:

   The properties of the Cow strain nearly all models we have tried to devise to explain it, whatever it is, it must involve some form of energetic and very fast explosion interacting with an extremely dense shell of material very close to the explosion progenitor.

4. Maria Uriarte:

   These are some of the trees that have denser wood, and trees with very dense wood historically have very low break rates and mortality rates, this storm was different -- trees 100 years old or more were broken. A proportion of these trees will be able rebuild the biomass and recover, and a number of them won't.

5. Arif Noor:

   The population is dense, but at the same time they're everywhere -- up in the mountains, down in the valleys, with landslides, the situation is even worse.

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