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dense

  • adjective
  • /ˈdɛns/

Having relatively high density.

Other meanings

  1. compact; crowded together.

  2. thick; difficult to penetrate.

Related words

  • densen
  • denseness
  • densification
  • densify
  • densimeter
  • electrodense
  • equidense
  • hyperdense
  • hypodense
  • isodense
  • nondense
  • overdense

Example sentences

  • “The book is really dense.”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

Word history

From Latin "dēnsus".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “dense” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.