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

1. dense, heavy, impenetrableadjective

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

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

2. dense, thickadjective

   hard to pass through because of dense growth

   "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"

3. denseadjective

   having high relative density or specific gravity

   "dense as lead"

4. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slowadjective

   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"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. denseadjective

   Having relatively high density.

   Etymology: From densus.

2. denseadjective

   Compact; crowded together.

   Etymology: From densus.

3. denseadjective

   Thick; difficult to penetrate.

   Etymology: From densus.

4. denseadjective

   Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

   Etymology: From densus.

5. denseadjective

   Obscure, or difficult to understand.

   Etymology: From densus.

6. denseadjective

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

   Etymology: From densus.

7. denseadjective

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

   Etymology: From densus.

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

1. Denseadjective

   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. Denseadjective

   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

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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. Michael Katchen:

   There is a benefit in being part of the engineering culture in the Valley ... a different sort of skill set that you acquire from being in senior positions or being around such a dense population of startups.

2. 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.

3. Tucker Clinton:

   As we learn more about it, we know that the web of connections between people on Trump’s team and Russian representatives just gets more and more dense.

4. David Hu:

   The more dense you could make your eyelashes, the better it would be.

5. Caroline Passerrello:

   Those types of items are really nutrient dense, they have a good shelf life. If you're able to plan ahead, they're pretty versatile and you can use them in different ways. Almost at every meal you could incorporate those items.

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