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dense

dɛns
WordNet
Knife, handle, cylindrical: tapering; flat upper end, turned decoration of separate bands of dense wavy lines, concentric circles at lower end, ferrules, id. NG 1980-27H426.
Knife, handle, cylindrical: tapering; flat upper end, turned decoration of separate bands of dense wavy lines, concentric circles at lower end, ferrules, id. NG 1980-27H426.
  1. (adj) dense
    slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity "so dense he never understands anything I say to him","never met anyone quite so dim","although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray","dumb officials make some really dumb decisions","he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse","worked with the slow students"
  2. (adj) dense
    having high relative density or specific gravity "dense as lead"
  3. (adj) dense
    hard to pass through because of dense growth "dense vegetation","thick woods"
  4. (adj) dense
    permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter "dense smoke","heavy fog","impenetrable gloom"
Illustrations
Strip of Brussels bobbin lace with a dense pattern of flowers, feather-like leaves and bizarre ornaments, derived from the patterns of silk fabrics from the same period. A narrower strip has been sewn to a wide strip, which suggests that the object was originally intended as a decorative strip with valance for a dressing tablecloth.
Strip of Brussels bobbin lace with a dense pattern of flowers, feather-like leaves and bizarre ornaments, derived from the patterns of silk fabrics from the same period. A narrower strip has been sewn to a wide strip, which suggests that the object was originally intended as a decorative strip with valance for a dressing tablecloth.
Polychrome, dense frame model of a buoy or barrel boat that simultaneously serves as a beacon and a shelter for shipwrecked people. It is a very plump boat with a keel; the fore ship is distinguished from the stern, a bumper surrounds the whole. A convex roof has been fitted over the deck, which has been omitted on one side; a manhole providing access to the hold has been installed in the deck. In the center is a mast, stiffened with chainstays and equipped with a triangular screen of trellis on both sides. On top of a round ball of wickerwork. Scale 1:10.
Polychrome, dense frame model of a buoy or barrel boat that simultaneously serves as a beacon and a shelter for shipwrecked people. It is a very plump boat with a keel; the fore ship is distinguished from the stern, a bumper surrounds the whole. A convex roof has been fitted over the deck, which has been omitted on one side; a manhole providing access to the hold has been installed in the deck. In the center is a mast, stiffened with chainstays and equipped with a triangular screen of trellis on both sides. On top of a round ball of wickerwork. Scale 1:10.
XXXVI Light and dense. First shock. Part of 'Sinnepoppen', R. Visscher, 1614.
XXXVI Light and dense. First shock. Part of 'Sinnepoppen', R. Visscher, 1614.
Sheet from the diary of Jan Brandes. Densely described sheet with notes from May 13, 1802 (death of wife Brandes) and May 21 (funeral). Written as if by daughter Johanna Maria but the handwriting is that of Brandes herself.
Sheet from the diary of Jan Brandes. Densely described sheet with notes from May 13, 1802 (death of wife Brandes) and May 21 (funeral). Written as if by daughter Johanna Maria but the handwriting is that of Brandes herself.
View of a rowboat along the dense bank of a river. In the background a turret and a covered bridge.
View of a rowboat along the dense bank of a river. In the background a turret and a covered bridge.
Bird's-eye view of Nagasaki Bay. On the left for the densely built-up city, with the Chinese trading post in the middle on the left and the Dutch trading post on the fan-shaped island Deshima. Central to Japanese ships bay. In the middle of a three-master with a Dutch flag with the number 37. On the left 4 Chinese junks with three masts. In the front fishing boats both with and without mast. One carries a Dutch flag. To the right and left behind hills, and at the top of the painting a sky and open sea. At the exit of the bay a ship with a Dutch flag, covered in smoke and with 12 rowboats in front. Image is stretched on side with a wooden base; this framework is contained in a small passe-partout that is covered with gray textile; glass in front of it. The whole is set in a wooden lacquered frame. Black lacquer inlaid with mother-of-pearl in leaf and flower motifs. There is gold lacquer along the glass edge. Reverse: black wooden board with two vertical slots.
Nagasaki Bay
Houses in a densely populated residential area have been hit by English bombers “somewhere in the Netherlands,” the caption said. Text strip glued to photo.
Houses in a densely populated residential area have been hit by English bombers “somewhere in the Netherlands,” the caption said. Text strip glued to photo.
A rowboat with three people sails in the water at a passage in a dense rock formation.
A rowboat with three people sails in the water at a passage in a dense rock formation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The more a person struggles to get out of quicksand the faster they will sink. Staying still, and being calm will actually make the body float in the quicksand because the body is less dense than the quicksand is
  1. Dense
    Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
If the entire population of the world were moved to Texas, it would still be less densely populated than New York City.
  1. dense
    Having great or unusual consistency of elements or closeness of parts; closely compacted or conglomerated; compact; close; thick: as, a dense body; a dense cloud or fog; a dense panicle of flowers.
  2. dense
    In zoology, closely set; separated by very small intervals: as. dense punctures, hairs, etc.
  3. dense
    In photography, more or less opaque; strong in the contrast of lights and shades: said of a negative exhibiting these characteristics, and capable of giving a brilliant print, or even, if it be too dense, a harsh one, as distinguished from a weak or thin negative, the picture on which presents small contrasts, while its film is inclined to be more or less transparent, even in the lights, and the resulting print is flat. Also expressed by strong and intense.
  4. dense
    Figuratively, without break or interruption; difficult to penetrate; solid and heavy: as, dense ignorance; dense wit; dense stupidity.
  5. dense
    Thick-headed; obtuse; stolid; stupid; dull.
  6. dense
    Synonyms Condensed, compressed.
  7. (n) dense
    A thicket.
  8. dense
    In optics, having a large index of refraction; capable of transmitting light at a less velocity than the velocity of light-waves in vacuo.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The forest of Canadian Lake District is so dense that during winter the snow stays on top of the trees and the forest floor stays bare.
  1. (adj) Dense
    dens thick, close, compact: impenetrably stupid
  2. (n) Dense
    a thicket
Quotations
W. Stanley Jevons
Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
W. Stanley Jevons
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. densus,; akin to Gr. thick with hair or leaves: cf. F. dense,

Usage in the news

Use firm, dense eggplant for best results) 4 cups soybean oil (for deep frying) 1 cup rice flour 2 Tbsps. food-management.com

Patchy Dense Fog, A Few More Flurries and COLD. kktv.com

Dense fog and some freezing fog on roadways will leave some icy spots early Sunday AM. minnesota.publicradio.org

"The material built well, with a nearly 100% dense part, no cracking and it held tolerances," says Greg Morris. aviationnow.com

DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST MONDAY. 2.wsav.com

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A DENSE FOG ADVISORY WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST MONDAY. 2.wsav.com

Dense fog advisory Monday morning. tvr.com

The National Weather Service has reported that locally dense fog has spread into the Treasure Coast this morning. tcpalm.com

Authorities say a man has been fatally shot in a densely populated area of New York City, popular with tourists during the Christmas season. okv.com

It's not just that woods and forests persist inside the city limits but also the fact that a city was densely built amidst them. dwell.com

SeaMicro made its name by developing technologies that allow it to build highly dense, power-efficient servers for Internet-scale workloads. pcworld.com

Colder air is more dense than warm air, which allows it to slide under and lift up as it approaches , offering an easy trigger for showers and storms. saz.com

While we woke up to dense fog in our area this morning, those states hit by Sandy last week woke up to snow and ice. bko.com

Palestinian militants targeted densely populated Tel Aviv in Israel's heartland with rockets for the first time Thursday, part of an unprecedented barrage that threatened to provoke an Israeli ground assault on Gaza. timesrepublican.com

Palestinian militants responded on Thursday with rocket attacks on densely populated Tel Aviv in Israel's heartland. eldoradonews.com

Usage in scientific papers

To prove that adGs (na ) = ¯O it is sufficient to prove that O ⊂ adGs (qa) is dense, or that adQs e ⊂ qa is dense.
Induced and simple modules of double affine Hecke algebras

This can be read off from Theorem 18, or argued more simply: if G had a giant-free subgraph H with linearly more than n edges, H (and thus G ) would have to have a linear-size dense component, but a random sparse graph has no linear-size dense component.
Random MAX SAT, Random MAX CUT, and Their Phase Transitions

In some limits the set of primitive macroscopically definable ensembles can be dense in the set of all macroscopically definable ensembles, or can be not dense, etc.
Geometry of irreversibility: The film of nonequilibrium states

In this case F is an Lp -dense class of functions for all 1 ≤ p < ∞ (with an exponent and a parameter depending on p) if there is a number 1 ≤ p < ∞ for which it is Lp -dense.
An estimate on the maximum of a nice class of stochastic integrals

To do this we have to show that if F is an L2 -dense class with some parameter D and exponent L, and F ′ ⊂ F , then F ′ is also an L2 -dense class with the same exponent L, only with a possibly different parameter D ′ .
An estimate on the maximum of a nice class of stochastic integrals

Usage in literature

The forest is pathless and dense with June undergrowth, shutting out the sun and all sign of direction. "Canada: the Empire of the North" by Agnes C. Laut

In vain he tried to pierce the dense darkness which surrounded them, for now the moon had disappeared, and bad weather seemed imminent again. "The Wizard of the Sea" by Roy Rockwood

Only the enormously dense atmosphere permitted them to move. "Invaders from the Infinite" by John Wood Campbell

The English walnut makes a dense shade, nothing grows under it. "Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting" by Northern Nut Growers Association

One drear autumnal afternoon, when the sky was dull, a dense white mist overspread the valley. "The Young Mountaineers" by Charles Egbert Craddock

You see how easy it would be to do that without being discovered, the foliage being so dense over the trail. "Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers" by Jessie Graham Flower

A dense fog surrounded Petru, a fog so dense that he could not even see himself in it. "Roumanian Fairy Tales" by Various

Now they could get their power from the air that each instant grew more dense about them. "The Black Star Passes" by John W Campbell

For several days mist lay so dense over the desert that we had to trust chiefly to the compass. "From Pole to Pole" by Sven Anders Hedin

The woods grew more dense. "A Little Girl in Old Detroit" by Amanda Minnie Douglas

Usage in poetry
Tranquil in the twilight dense
By the spreading branches made,
Let us breathe the influence
Of the silence and the shade.
"En Sourdine" by Paul Verlaine Author object (534)
And then about the slumbering palace
The fairy made up-spring
A wood so heavy and dense that never
Could enter a living thing.
"The Sleeping Princess" by Clara Doty Bates Author object (117)
In gloom as dense can Spica grope
As this that bars the human will?
Desires as vast her children fill,
Or kindred mystery and hope?
"The Testimony of the Suns" by George Sterling Author object (248)
Nor did I think (How dense we are!)
That any day, however far,
Would find me holding, unrepelled,
The place that Doctor Johnson held!
"At Cheshire Cheese" by Paul Laurence Dunbar Author object (533)
Of winged, unmiraculous women,
Honey-drudgers.
I am no drudge
Though for years I have eaten dust
And dried plates with my dense hair.
"Stings" by Sylvia Plath
We might not see a lance's length,
So dense was their array,
But the long fell sweep of the Scottish blade
Still held them hard at bay.
"The Heart Of The Bruce" by William Edmondstoune Aytoun Author object (700)