dense
IPA: dˈɛns
noun
- A thicket.
adjective
- Having relatively high density.
- Compact; crowded together.
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- Obscure, or difficult to understand.
- (mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See the Wikipedia article on dense sets for a mathematical definition.
- Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
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Examples of "dense" in Sentences
- “That residents living in dense census tracts have fewer confidants.”
- Masked warrior had pated dust on body, disappear in dense smother and fog.
- “Interactive individuals sacrifice something by locating in dense tracts.”
- We've enveloped world in dense chain of supermarkets with global trade, we can eat food from around the world.
- Or to elaborate on another, what if innovation and investment occurs at a more rapid pace because of activities conducted by elites in dense cities?
- If, then, what we call a dense body is so by reason of the presence of many qualities, that plenitude of qualities will be the cause [of the inhibition].
- Agent Orange was the code name of a herbicide developed for the military to prohibit enemy concealment in dense terrain by defoliating trees and shrubbery where the enemy could hide.
- [O] fficials on Tuesday said that a pheasant hunter from Alaska shot and killed a sow grizzly in dense brush east of U.S. Highway 89 and about 8 miles north of Choteau on Monday ....
- The blocks are covered in dense comic art that reminds me of the Sergio Argones marginalia in MAD Magazine -- a million zillion sight gags on the theme of "Oh God the baby is coming to destroy us all!"
- Karl Hansen "Sergeant Pepper"; it's easy to imagine Cameron writing a plot for "Avatar" after having red Hansens novel; soldiers "protecting" exploatation of Titan inhabited by genetically engeneered humans - creatures taller than average Homo sapiens and able to "glide" in dense atmosphere.
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