Impassable vs Dense - What's the difference?
impassable | dense | Related terms |
Incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated.
(of an obstacle) Incapable of being overcome or surmounted.
(of currency) Not useable as legal tender.
Having relatively high density.
Compact; crowded together.
Thick; difficult to penetrate.
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, title= Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
Obscure, or difficult to understand.
(mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on (dense set)s for mathematical definition.
Of a person, slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
Impassable is a related term of dense.
As adjectives the difference between impassable and dense
is that impassable is incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated while dense is having relatively high density.impassable
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(en adjective)Synonyms
* unpassableSee also
* impassible ----dense
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(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}