denseness


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dense

 (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.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.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.denseness - the amount per unit sizedenseness - the amount per unit size    
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
low density,rarity,tenuity - a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere"
relative density - the ratio of the density of something to the density of a standard
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Translations

denseness

[ˈdensnɪs]N
1. (=stupidity) →estupidezf
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
(= concentrated nature)Gedrängtheitf;(= excessive complexity)Überladenheitf
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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