dense

English Online Dictionary. What means dense‎? What does dense mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /dɛns/
• Rhymes: -ɛns

Adjective

dense (comparative denser, superlative densest)

1. Having relatively high density.

   Synonym: solid

2. Compact; crowded together.

   Synonyms: compact, crowded, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact

   Antonyms: diffuse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse

3. Thick; difficult to penetrate.

   Synonyms: thick, solid

   Antonym: thin
4. 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

5. 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

6. (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

7. Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)

   Synonyms: dumb, slow, stupid, thick; see also Thesaurus:stupid

   Antonyms: bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart; see also Thesaurus:intelligent

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “crowded together”): diffuse, few and far between (of things as opposed to one thing), scattered, sparse, rarefied (scientific, to describe gases)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

dense (plural denses)

1. A thicket.

Anagrams

• Denes, Edens, Sneed, denes, edens, needs, sende, sneed

Esperanto

Etymology

From densa +‎ -e.

Adverb

dense

1. densely

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēnsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃s/

Adjective

dense (plural denses)

1. dense

Related terms

• condenser
• densité

Further reading

• “dense”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Adjective

dense f pl

1. feminine plural of denso

Latin

Etymology

From dēnsus (“dense, close, frequent”) +‎ -ē (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈden.seː/, [ˈd̪ẽːs̠eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈden.se/, [ˈd̪ɛnse]

Adverb

dēnsē (comparative dēnsius, superlative dēnsissimē)

1. closely, in rapid succession

Related terms

References

• “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.

Spanish

Verb

dense

1. third-person plural imperative of dar combined with se