Definitions for dense

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Spelling: [dens]

IPA: /dɛns/

Dense is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in dense (deens).

Definitions for dense

adjective

1. having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact:
2. stupid; slow-witted; dull.
3. intense; extreme:
4. relatively opaque; transmitting little light, as a photographic negative, optical glass, or color.
5. difficult to understand or follow because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style:
6. Mathematics. of or relating to a subset of a topological space in which every neighborhood of every point in the space contains at least one point of the subset.

Origin of dense

1590-1600; Latin dēnsus thick; cognate with Greek dasýs

Examples for dense

He had a special knife designed to cut the dense loaf, and a ceremony to precede cutting the cake.

But when he was a half-mile on the other side he drew into a dense cluster of bushes and waited.

For those in the dense forests, beaches, and towns of West Africa, it is a real threat.

In the dense atmosphere of tobacco and conspiracy, one hot topic has been the death penalty.

Volley after volley was poured into the dense mass, at deadly range.

Persons of every class are crowded together, here, in one dense mass.

No break occurred, and presently I was stopped by a dense thicket of bushes.

The narrowest piece of land was at Panama, but it was covered in dense, mountainous jungle.

These days they are occasional meteorological irruptions, white river mists, not dense and toxic industrial pea-soupers.

The day was sultry, and the heat, even in the dense shade of the jungle, oppressive.