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dense::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | thick |
| Derivation | denseness, density |
dense vegetation.
dense::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | heavy, impenetrable |
| Derivation | density |
dense smoke.
dense::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | denseness, density |
dense as lead.
Examples of dense
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Despite the fish's size, when left alone, it's surprisingly flavorful and dense.
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Corruption is virtually a cottage industry in its dense array of smaller cities.
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Some pages have slogans markered on them, others have columns of dense printing.
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Such workers seek urban areas with vital, dense downtowns and good mass transit.
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Tight-knit structure, with lots of dense fruit, but a refinement to the tannins.
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The souffle dark truffle cake, dense and intense, is served with mint ice cream.
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Dense concrete blocks are made from graded aggregate and cement, cast in moulds.
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Its atmosphere would store heat well, thanks to its dense CO2, a greenhouse gas.
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Dense fog that limited visibility to 15 yards rolled into some areas after dawn.
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- Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"
- Having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead"
- 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 ...
- (densely) dumbly: in a stupid manner; "he had so rapaciously desired and so obtusely expected to find her alone"
- (densely) in a concentrated manner; "old houses are often so densely packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for every new one built"; "a thickly populated area"
- (denseness) the quality of being mentally slow and limited
- Dense is a 2004 35 minute made for TV film directed and written by Vanessa Williams (story) with Shari Poindexter which aired on Showtime and which is currently playing in film festivals around the country. , accessed 01-04-2009
- In topology and related areas of mathematics, a subset A of a topological space X is called dense (in X) if any point x in X either belongs to A, or is a limit point of A.
- The density, or more precisely, the volumetric mass density, of a substance is its mass per unit volume. The symbol most often used for density is u03C1 (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter D can also be used. Mathematically, density is defined as mass divided by volume:
