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Denser vs Denier - What's the difference?

denser | denier |

As an adjective denser

is comparative of dense.

As a noun denier is

an old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.

denser

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (dense)
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    dense

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having relatively high density.
  • Compact; crowded together.
  • Thick; difficult to penetrate.
  • *, chapter=13
  • , title= 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.}}
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (having relatively high density) solid * (crowded together) compact, crowded, packed * (difficult to penetrate) thick, solid * (allowing little light to pass through) cloudy, opaque * (difficult to understand) abstruse, difficult, hard, incomprehensible, obscure, tough * (slow to comprehend) dumb, slow, stupid, thick

    Antonyms

    * (having relatively high density) * (crowded together) diffuse, few and far between (of things as opposed to one thing), scattered, sparse, rarefied * (difficult to penetrate) thin * (allowing little light to pass through) clear, diaphanous, see-through, translucent, transparent * (difficult to understand) clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable * (in mathematics) meager * (slow to comprehend) bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart

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    denier

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) denier, from (etyl) denarius.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.
  • * 2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 117:
  • A bronze denier bearing the inscription CONRADUS around a central cross, was minted in Lugdunum.
  • A unit of weight which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery.
  • * 2002 , (Jill Mansell), Staying at Daisy's :
  • Upstairs she rummaged through her chest of drawers, finally unearthing an unopened pack of ten denier barely blacks.

    See also

    * tex

    Etymology 2

    (deny).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Person who something.
  • Holocaust denier (see )
    Global warming denier (see )
    AIDS denier (see )

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