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dense

adj
/dɛns/UK

Etymology

From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”) (whence also Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús)).

  1. derived from *dens-✻
  2. derived from dēnsus
  3. derived from dense

Definitions

  1. Having relatively high density.

  2. Compact

    Compact; crowded together.

    • The regions of densest population are the tributaries and banks of the Huai above Pang-pu and the diked areas along the right bank of the Yangtze.[…] There are four large towns—Ho-fei, the capital; Huai-nan; Pang-pu; and Wu-hu.

  3. Thick

    Thick; difficult to penetrate.

    • ... mantling the slopes are other still denser forests, where the Pacara (Enterolobium timbavica), Lapacho (Tecoma stans), Quina-Quina (Myroxilon peruanum), urunday (allied to the Lapacho) Quefioa (Rosacea Polylepis racemosa), Cascaron ...
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Opaque

      Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

    2. Obscure or difficult to understand.

    3. Such that its closure in T is T.

    4. Slow to comprehend

      Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)

      • There are times when systems like GPT-4 seem to mimic human reasoning, but there are also times when they seem terribly dense. “These behaviors are not always consistent,” Ece Kamar, a Microsoft researcher, said.

    5. A thicket.

The neighborhood

  • antonymdiffuseantonym(s) of “crowded together”
  • antonymfew and far betweenantonym(s) of “crowded together”
  • antonymscatteredantonym(s) of “crowded together”
  • antonymsparseantonym(s) of “crowded together”
  • antonymrarefiedantonym(s) of “crowded together”

Derived

dense array, dense blazingstar, dense-in-itself, densen, denseness, densification, densify, densimeter, electrodense, equidense, hyperdense, hypodense, isodense, nondense, overdense, radiodense, superdense, ultradense, underdense

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dense. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01dense02relatively03competition04prize05belligerent06warring07engaged08busy09crowded

A definitional loop anchored at dense. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at dense

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA