Density vs Denser - What's the difference?
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(physics) A measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
, title= (senseid)The ratio of one quantity to that of another quantity.
(senseid)The probability that an event will occur, as a function of some observed variable.
(dense)
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.
As a noun density
is (physics) a measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume.As an adjective denser is
(dense).density
English
(wikipedia density)Noun
(densities)Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?, volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.}}
Derived terms
* charge density * energy density * electron density * freight densityAnagrams
*denser
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Adjective
(head)Anagrams
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Adjective
(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.}}