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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024dense /dɛns/USA pronunciation adj., dens•er, dens•est. - having parts closely packed together;
crowded:a dense forest. - stupid;
slow-witted. - thick;
intense;
difficult to see through:a very dense fog. - difficult to understand:dense writing.
dense•ly, adv. dense•ness, n. [uncountable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024dense (dens),USA pronunciation adj., 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. - Photographyrelatively 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.
- Mathematicsof or pertaining 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.
- Latin dēnsus thick; cognate with Greek dasýs
- 1590–1600
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged congested, crammed, teeming; impenetrable.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: dense /dɛns/ adj - thickly crowded or closely set: a dense crowd
- thick; impenetrable
- having a high density
- stupid; dull; obtuse
- (of a photographic negative) having many dark or exposed areas
Etymology: 15th Century: from Latin densus thick; related to Greek dasus thickly covered with hair or leaves |