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/ˈdɛns/
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/ˈdɪns/
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- pin-pen-merger
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/ˈdens/
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dɛns
Adjective
Having relatively high density.
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Compact; crowded together.
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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.
Thick; difficult to penetrate.
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... 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 ...
And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.
Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
Obscure or difficult to understand.
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And if you're experiencing a weird sensation after that clip that you can't quite place, it's because it was nice! It was happy kids talking about how they're able to be themselves, and you don't usually get nice things on this show, which at this point is honestly mainly dense statistics and facts and occasional Pikachu porn!
Such that its closure in T is T.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a subset S of a topological space T
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Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
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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.
Noun
A thicket.
Adjective
permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
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dense smoke
heavy fog
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impenetrable gloom
hard to pass through because of dense growth
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dense vegetation
thick woods
having high relative density or specific gravity
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dense as lead
slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
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so dense he never understands anything I say to him
never met anyone quite so dim
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dumb officials make some really dumb decisions
he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
worked with the slow students
having component parts closely crowded together
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a compact shopping center
a dense population
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thick crowds
a thick forest
thick hair