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Definition of Dense

1. Adjective. Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter. "Impenetrable gloom"

2. Adjective. Hard to pass through because of dense growth. "Thick woods"

3. Adjective. Having high relative density or specific gravity. "Dense as lead"

4. Adjective. Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity. "Worked with the slow students"

Definition of Dense

1. a. 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.

Definition of Dense

1. Adjective. Having relatively high density. ¹

2. Adjective. Compact; crowded together. ¹

3. Adjective. Thick; difficult to penetrate. ¹

4. Adjective. Opaque; allowing little light to pass through. ¹

5. Adjective. Obscure, or difficult to understand. ¹

6. Adjective. (context: mathematics topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on (w dense set)s for mathematical definition. ¹

7. Adjective. Of a person, slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.(anchor ADJ7) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dense

1. compact [adj DENSER, DENSEST] : DENSELY [adv] - See also: compact

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dense

dens angularis dens bicuspidus dens caninus dens cuspidatus dens deciduus dens incisivus dens lacteus dens molaris dens permanens dens premolaris

dens sapientiae dens serotinus dens succedaneus dense (current term) dense-deposit disease dense-in-itself dense-leaved elodea dense blazing star dense bodies dense liver

dense metaphyseal bands dense spleen densely denseness densenesses denser densest densification

Literary usage of Dense

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and the Theory of Fourier's Series by Ernest William Hobson (1907)
"NON-dense CLOSED AND PERFECT SETS. 72. It has been shewn in § C6, ... 67. t This relation between everywhere-dense sets of intervals and closed sets was ..."

2. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1920)
"European dense dense dense dense dense dense dense dense dense dense None dense dense dense dense dense... Thick. Leaves Medium to thick, fall fruit. Thick. ..."

3. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"Fibroma is a firm, dense, and opaque growth, either sessile or pedunculated, composed entirely of bundles of a dense interlacing fibrous connective tissue, ..."

4. Report. by Henry Phipps Institute (1906)
"Right, Left, . s 5 Recent 6 dense, 11 Recent and dense,. ... I Not tabulated as to recency and density, 12 Recent, 2 dense 1 Not tabulated as to recency and ..."

5. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1903)
"their dense and poorly-paid population, is no criterion by which to jadee what ... The primary fault of most road reformers has been that, through dense ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1831)
"On (he efficacy of the Nitrate of Silver Ointment in leucoma, and dense ... or unusually dense, the power of vision will be very generally limited to an ..."

7. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"surface of dense foliage as smooth and uniform as that of the best trained hedge. According to Nuttall the smooth gray bark exudes in small quantities a ..."

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