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adjective, dens·er, dens·est. having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest; dense population.
stupid; slow-witted; dull.
intense; extreme: dense ignorance.
relatively opaque; transmitting little light, as a photographic negative, optical glass, or color.
difficult to understand or follow because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style: a dense philosophical essay.
Mathematics . of or relating to a subset of a topological space in which every neighborhood of every point in the space contains at least one point of the subset.
Origin of dense 1590–1600; <Latin dēnsus thick; cognate with Greek dasýs
SYNONYMS FOR dense 1 congested, crammed, teeming; impenetrable.
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OTHER WORDS FROM dense densely, adverb denseness, noun non·dense·ness, noun su·per·dense, adjective
ul·tra·dense, adjective
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Example sentences from the Web for dense In its own weird way, by the end, The Colbert Report was as dense ly serialized as Lost.
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Dense ly populated and impoverished, the community was struggling long before Ebola arrived.
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And the reasons for that suggest just how dense ly complicated the Mideast quagmire has become.
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In the mid-20th century, the 15.5-acre island had become the most dense ly populated place on Earth.
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New Jersey is the most dense ly populated state in the nation.
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Pinnæ broadly lanceolate-falcate or the lowest triangular, strongly auricled on the upper side, dense ly spinulose-toothed.
The Fern Lover's Companion | George Henry Tilton
What to you is clear as the daylight, may to me be as dense ly impenetrable as the Cimmerian night.
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It is now covered with stores, buildings and dense ly populated tenement houses.
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Who were the people who populated this usually uninhabited, inhospitable place so dense ly and in so strange a manner?
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In the Northern cities the recruiting offices were dense ly thronged.
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British Dictionary definitions for dense adjective thickly crowded or closely set a dense crowd
thick; impenetrable a dense fog
physics having a high density
stupid; dull; obtuse
(of a photographic negative) having many dark or exposed areas
(of an optical glass, colour, etc) transmitting little or no light
Derived forms of dense densely , adverb denseness , noun Word Origin for dense C15: from Latin densus thick; related to Greek dasus thickly covered with hair or leaves
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