Definitions for dense
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. denseadjective

   Having relatively high density.

2. denseadjective

   Compact; crowded together.

3. denseadjective

   Thick; difficult to penetrate.

4. denseadjective

   Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

5. denseadjective

   Obscure, or difficult to understand.

6. denseadjective

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

7. denseadjective

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

8. Etymology: From densus.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DENSEadjective

   Close; compact; approaching to solidity; having small interstices between the constituent particles.

   Etymology: densus, Latin.

   The cause of cold is the density of the body; for all dense bodies are colder than most other bodies, as metals, stone, glass; and they are longer in heating than softer bodies. Francis Bacon.

   In the air the higher you go, the less it is compressed, and consequently the less dense it is; and so the upper part is exceedingly thinner than the lower part which we breathe. John Locke.

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1. dense

   Dense generally refers to the degree of compactness or concentration of something. It could be referring to an object or substance having parts or elements closely packed together, an area filled with people or things, or a text that is difficult to understand due to complexity. The specific meaning often depends on the context in which it is used.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

2. Denseadjective

   stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance

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

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.]

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dense

   thickly crowded together.

Anagrams for dense »

1. denes

2. needs

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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. Brulte Co.:

   The biggest competitive advantage that TuSimple has over its competitors is that their technology was purpose-built for trucking. They're not trying to port an autonomy system built for passenger vehicles in dense urban environments to trucking or to build a virtual driver which can both drive passenger vehicles and class-8 trucks. These are different skills and different systems altogether.

2. Jeffrey Lewis:

   There is no point in what Russia seems to have tried to do. The network of international sensors is too dense for one country withholding data to hide an event.

3. Matthias Egger:

   If you’re out there, what you see is just pristine blue ocean, you can think of it like the night sky. If you look up at night, you see all those white dots, that’s essentially what you see in the garbage patch. It’s not that dense, but there are a lot of them … out there, you start seeing more and more plastic the longer you look.

4. Joanna Barstow:

   Gliese 1214 b is a type of planet we call a Super-Earth -- a bit bigger than Earth, a bit smaller than Neptune. It's not dense enough to be rocky so it's probably like a warm mini-Neptune. There's nothing like it in our solar system and we don't really know what to expect, on my wish list for the future is a telescope to study exoplanets like Gliese 1214 b in more detail. I want to know what's going on beneath that cloud layer !

5. Matthias Egger:

   You can think of it like the night sky. If you look up at night, you see all those white dots, that’s essentially what you see in the garbage patch. It’s not that dense, but there are a lot of them … out there, you start seeing more and more plastic the longer you look.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dense
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dense
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=dense
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dense
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=dense
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=dense
8. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=dense