dense

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From Middle French dense, from Латински dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”).

• (Received Pronunciation, US) МФА^(кључ): /dɛns/

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• Риме: -ɛns

dense (comparative denser, superlative densest)

1. Having relatively high density.

   Синоним: solid

2. Compact; crowded together.

   Синоними: compact, crowded, packed, Thesaurus:compact

   Антоними: diffuse, Thesaurus:diffuse

3. Thick; difficult to penetrate.

   Синоними: thick, solid

   Антоним: thin

   • Шаблон:RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp
4. Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

   Синоними: cloudy, opaque, Thesaurus:opaque

   Антоними: clear, diaphanous, see-through, translucent, transparent, Thesaurus:transparent, Thesaurus:translucent

5. Obscure, or difficult to understand.

   Синоними: abstruse, difficult, hard, incomprehensible, obscure, tough, Thesaurus:incomprehensible

   Антоними: clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable, Thesaurus:comprehensible

6. (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.

   Антоним: meager

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

   Синоними: dumb, slow, stupid, thick, Thesaurus:stupid

   Антоними: bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart, Thesaurus:intelligent

   • 2023 мај 16, Cade Metz, “Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

• (crowded together): diffuse, few and far between (of things as opposed to one thing), scattered, sparse, rarefied (scientific, to describe gases)

dense (plural denses)

1. A thicket.

• Denes, Edens, Sneed, denes, edens, needs, sende, sneed ^{(alphagram deens)}

From Африканс.

dense

1. densely

Позајмљено од Латински dēnsus.

• МФА^(кључ): /dɑ̃s/

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dense

1. dense

• condenser
• densité

• “dense”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

dense f pl

1. feminine plural of denso

From dēnsus (“dense, close, frequent”) +‎ -ē (adverbial suffix).

• () МФА^(кључ): /ˈden.seː/, [ˈd̪ẽːs̠eː]
• () МФА^(кључ): /ˈden.se/, [ˈd̪ɛnse]

dense

1. closely, in rapid succession

• “dense”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dense”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

dense

1. third-person plural imperative of dar combined with se