denseness
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(dĕns)adj.dens·er,dens·est
1.
a. Having relatively high density.
b. Crowded closely together; compact:a dense population.
2. Hard to penetrate; thick:a dense jungle.
3.
a. Permitting little light to pass through, because of compactness of matter:dense glass; a dense fog.
b. Opaque, with good contrast between light and dark areas. Used of a photographic negative.
4. Difficult to understand because of complexity or obscurity:a dense novel.
5. Slow to apprehend; thickheaded.
[Middle English, from Latindēnsus.]
dense′ly adv.
dense′ness n.
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Noun | 1. | denseness - the quality of being mentally slow and limited stupidity - a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience |
2. | denseness - the spatial property of being crowded together spatial arrangement,spacing - the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them | |
3. | ![]() compactness - the consistency of a compact solid bits per inch,bpi - a measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium flux density,flux - (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area absorbance,optical density,photographic density,transmission density - (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation relative density - the ratio of the density of something to the density of a standard |
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
denseness
n
(= thickness) →Dichtef
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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Taking advantage of thedenseness of the trees, he came close to the house and skirted round it.
Crushed was the artist, sorry for thedenseness of connoisseurs was his wife, till the work was bought by a dealer for an anonymous client, and then elated were they both, and relieved also to discover that I was not the buyer.
Others, still a numerous class, were restless in their movements, had flushed faces, and talked and gesticulated to themselves, as if feeling in solitude on account of the verydenseness of the company around.
The jelly-like substance begins to take on form through the processes of physical education, and with this to take on the characteristicdenseness of the fully functioning adult brain.
(3) For Kant, the only way to representdenseness is to model it on the infinite divisibility of a line in space.
Written in prose and subject to none of the rigors of Chinese versification, they share adenseness and vividness of personal vision and expression with some of the best of Chinese poetry.
But though they may look like poetry from a distance, they mostly lack good poetry'sdenseness and complication.
What comes over is a thorough portrait of an Eastern monarch, and perhaps indeed thedenseness of the text is equal to the inscrutability of what Edward Said called 'Orientalism'.
Weiss refers to Hitchcock's fondness for "asynchronous sound," noting that "less than one-tenth of the time that we are looking at Jeff's neighbors does the dominant sound emanate from the particular window under surveillance." By using sounds that are "contrapuntal to the visuals" (109), by separating sound and image, Hitchcock is able to achieve as Weiss summarizes it, "variety,denseness, tension, and .
Hence are we to sympathize with or just laugh at this half-human, pragmatic ogre type who gives the fool a jewel-defecating donkey to take home to a mother already frustrated with her son'sdenseness? Antuono loses the donkey on the way home to a tavern keeper, and brings home a donkey who does his business on the linens saved for his sisters' dowry, and gets thrown out again.
To tell all this is only to give the faintest sense of thedenseness of Cunningham's tale, its wealth of ideas, connections, allusions, and, not least, emotion.
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