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Dense

//dɛns// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having relatively high density.
  2. 2
    Compact; crowded together.

    "The regions of densest population are the tributaries and banks of the Huai above Pang-pu and the diked areas along the right bank of the Yangtze.[…] There are four large towns—Ho-fei, the capital; Huai-nan; Pang-pu; and Wu-hu."

  3. 3
    Thick; difficult to penetrate.

    "... mantling the slopes are other still denser forests, where the Pacara (Enterolobium timbavica), Lapacho (Tecoma stans), Quina-Quina (Myroxilon peruanum), urunday (allied to the Lapacho) Quefioa (Rosacea Polylepis racemosa), Cascaron ..."

  4. 4
    Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
  5. 5
    Obscure or difficult to understand.

    "And if you're experiencing a weird sensation after that clip that you can't quite place, it's because it was nice! It was happy kids talking about how they're able to be themselves, and you don't usually get nice things on this show, which at this point is honestly mainly dense statistics and facts and occasional Pikachu porn!"

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  1. 6
    Such that its closure in T is T. not-comparable
  2. 7
    Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)

    "There are times when systems like GPT-4 seem to mimic human reasoning, but there are also times when they seem terribly dense. “These behaviors are not always consistent,” Ece Kamar, a Microsoft researcher, said."

Adjective
  1. 1
    slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity wordnet
  2. 2
    having component parts closely crowded together wordnet
  3. 3
    having high relative density or specific gravity wordnet
  4. 4
    hard to pass through because of dense growth wordnet
  5. 5
    permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A thicket.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”) (whence also Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús)).

Etymology 2

From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”) (whence also Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús)).

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