density
The amount of a certain phenomenon (such as stuff, things, energy, or otherwise) in a given area (surface area) or volume (amount of space).
Other meanings
A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.
The ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed.
Related words
- chemodensity
- densitize
- electrodensity
- equidensity
- hyperdensity
- hypodensity
- immunodensity
- isodensity
- microdensity
- overdensity
- photodensity
- radiodensity
Word history
From Latin "densitas".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “density” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.