dense
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- adjective
- /dɛns/
- Specialized
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denso
- Most of the cases are very dense, containing a great deal of information and analysis.
- very dense
- less dense
- dense material
It's a tiny little book, a dense, poetic little novel.
- It's a tiny little book, a dense, poetic little novel.
- Tofu and tempeh are really protein dense plant based foods.
- These meats are typically calorie dense and lack important nutrients.
- You'll eat more carbohydrate dense, calorie dense foods.
- This tells us that in the early universe, matter was dense and hot, really hot.
- You're, you're putting nutrient dense food on people's plates.
- So the bigger the black hole is, the less dense is the material that can make it.
- More bits is more data, so denser in this case is better.
- And this again is very powerful dense stuff, right?
Examples
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The galactic core was too hot and dense to support normal stellar activity.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's a tiny little book, a dense, poetic little novel.
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So we take really complex, dense subject matter.
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So space is actually extremely dense in electromagnetic fields.
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The older ones are a dense gray; the young ones are clear, almost transparent.
Fiction book (1998) -
On the way home, I looked at the dense little city unrolling outside my windows.
Fiction book (1998) -
It is a very dense, very rich aroma.
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Tofu and tempeh are really protein dense plant based foods.
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I'm really focusing on nutrient-dense food, organic, seasonal, fresh food, making sure that I'm getting as much...
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The scientist studied the properties of the dense material to understand its structure better.
Antonyms
Compounds
A tall plant with many close purple flower spikes used in flower arrangements
How Dense
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dense comes from the Latin densus, which means 'thick' or 'crowded', and you can see this in the word density. So a dense material has a lot of matter in a small space, which is why it feels heavy.