Meaning of DENSE
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- [adj] slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
- [adj] closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"
- [adj] having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead"
- [adj] hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"
- [adj] permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"
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| | Definition: | | \Dense\, a. [L. densus; akin to Gr. ? thick with hair or
leaves: cf. F. dense.]
1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together;
close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small
space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a
dense fog.
All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare.
--Ray.
To replace the cloudy barrier dense. --Cowper.
2. Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.
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