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Density vs Tensity - What's the difference?

density | tensity |

As nouns the difference between density and tensity

is that density is (physics: amount of matter contained by a given volume) A measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume while tensity is the quality of being tense (literally or figuratively); tension.

density

English

(wikipedia density)

Noun

(densities)
  • (physics) A measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * charge density * energy density * electron density * freight density

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    tensity

    English

    Noun

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  • The quality of being tense (literally or figuratively); tension.
  • * 1942': That broke the '''tensity of the children's interest, and they ran back into the house — Rebecca West, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 994)