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How to pronounce density in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms compactness, concentration, denseness, tightness
Type of spacing, spatial arrangement
Derivation dense
Type Words
Synonyms denseness
Type of compactness
Has types bits per inch, bpi, flux, flux density, low density, optical density, photographic density, rarity, relative density, transmission density, tenuity, absorbance
Derivation dense

Examples of density

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The high-density storage system moves and sorts items on pallets in a warehouse.
From the democratandchronicle.com
X-ray scanning is limited to range of effect and density of shielding materials.
From the forbes.com
High density developments are not any less safe than lower density developments.
From the forbes.com
Density is a reason why NYC jobs, Boston jobs, LA jobs pay more than Texas jobs.
From the economist.com
Foods that are high in fibre and low in fat tend to have a lower energy density.
From the telegraph.co.uk
He also said Albany's population density makes a Central Avenue store appealing.
From the timesunion.com
It has an extremely low density, indicating it probably has many interior voids.
From the bbc.co.uk
Class A protection, which is based on density of wild trout, precludes stocking.
From the post-gazette.com
The suggested disk of solid material is exaggerated in density here for clarity.
From the sciencedaily.com
More examples
  • The amount per unit size
  • Concentration: the spatial property of being crowded together
  • (dense) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"
  • (dense) having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead"
  • (dense) 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"; " ...
  • 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:
  • (Dense (film)) 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
  • (Dense (topology)) 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.
  • A measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume; The ratio of one quantity to that of another quantity; The probability that an event will occur, as a function of some observed variable