dense
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”).
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AdjectiveEdit
dense (comparative denser, superlative densest)
- Having relatively high density.
- Synonym: solid
- Compact; crowded together.
- Synonyms: compact, crowded, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact
- Antonyms: diffuse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
- And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- Synonyms: cloudy, opaque; see also Thesaurus:opaque
- Antonyms: clear, diaphanous, see-through, translucent, transparent; see also Thesaurus:transparent, Thesaurus:translucent
- Obscure, or difficult to understand.
- Synonyms: abstruse, difficult, hard, incomprehensible, obscure, tough; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
- Antonyms: clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable; see also Thesaurus:comprehensible
- (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.
- Antonym: meager
- (of a person) Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
- Synonyms: dumb, slow, stupid, thick; see also Thesaurus:stupid
- Antonyms: bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart; see also Thesaurus:intelligent
AntonymsEdit
- (crowded together): diffuse, few and far between (of things as opposed to one thing), scattered, sparse, rarefied (scientific, to describe gases)
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TranslationsEdit
having relatively high density
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compact; crowded together
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thick; difficult to penetrate
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opaque; allowing little light to pass through
obscure, or difficult to understand
math: being a well-approximating subset
slow to comprehend; of low intelligence
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NounEdit
dense (plural denses)
- A thicket.
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dense
FrenchEdit
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dense (plural denses)
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Further readingEdit
- “dense”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
ItalianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dense f pl
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From dēnsus (“dense, close, frequent”) + -ē (adverbial suffix).
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AdverbEdit
dēnsē (comparative dēnsius, superlative dēnsissimē)
- closely, in rapid succession
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ReferencesEdit
- “dense”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dense”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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VerbEdit
dense
- third-person plural imperative of dar combined with se