Usually means: Closely packed, little empty space.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dense: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dense: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dense: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dense: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dense, dense: Wordnik
  7. dense: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dense: Wiktionary
  9. dense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dense: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dense, dense: Dictionary.com
  13. dense: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dense: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dense (lattice theory), Dense (topology), Dense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dense: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dense: Rhymezone
  19. dense, dense: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dense: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dense: Free Dictionary
  22. dense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dense: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. dense: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. dense: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dense: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DENSE: Acronym Finder

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dense: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. dense, dense, dense, dense (in a poset): PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. dense: UNCChem Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dense: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Having relatively high density.
▸ adjective:  Compact; crowded together.
▸ adjective:  Thick; difficult to penetrate.
▸ adjective:  Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
▸ adjective:  Obscure, or difficult to understand.
▸ adjective:  (mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See the Wikipedia article on dense sets for a mathematical definition.
▸ adjective:  Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
▸ noun:  A thicket.

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thick, heavy, dim, slow, obtuse, dumb, stupid, concentrated, dull, compact, more...

Opposite:
sparse, thin, light, airy, loose

Types:
neutron star, white dwarf, black hole, quark star, quark nugget, more...

Phrases:
electron dense, dense bodies, dense matter, dense matrix, everywhere dense, more...

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nutrient, normal, multicast, more, very, dose, 10-30, worthy

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    forest green,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     burgundy,     olive,     slate gray,     mahogany,     hunter green,     maroon,     teal


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Similar:
thick, heavy, dim, slow, obtuse, dumb, stupid, concentrated, dull, compact, more...

Opposite:
sparse, thin, light, airy, loose

Types:
neutron star, white dwarf, black hole, quark star, quark nugget, more...

Phrases:
electron dense, dense bodies, dense matter, dense matrix, everywhere dense, dense subset, nutrient dense, nowhere dense, dense wool, dense blazing star, dense leaved elodea, dense core vesicle, more...

Adjectives:
nutrient, normal, multicast, more, very, dose, 10-30, worthy

Colors:
    forest green,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     burgundy,     olive,     slate gray,     mahogany,     hunter green,     maroon,     teal



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