Fate vs Density - What's the difference?
fate | density |
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
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The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
(lb) (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
* 2011 , James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)
(physics) A measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume.
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, 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.
As a proper noun fate
is any one of the fates.As a noun density is
(physics) a measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume.fate
English
(wikipedia fate)Noun
- Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate' which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that ' fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
Synonyms
* destiny * doom * fortune * kismet * lot * necessity * orlay * predestination * wyrdAntonyms
* choice * free will * freedomDerived terms
* fatal * fatalism * fatality * tempt fateSee also
* determinism * indeterminismVerb
(fat)- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
- At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.
Usage notes
* In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.Anagrams
* * * * ----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.}}
