| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  d ns |
| ADJECTIVE: | Inflected forms: dens·er, dens·est
1a. Having relatively high density. b. Crowded closely together; compact: a dense population. 2. Hard to penetrate; thick: a dense jungle. 3a. Permitting little light to pass through, because of compactness of matter: dense glass; a dense fog. b. Opaque, with good contrast between light and dark areas. Used of a photographic negative. 4. Difficult to understand because of complexity or obscurity: a dense novel. 5. Slow to apprehend; thickheaded. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Latin d nsus. | | OTHER FORMS: | dense ly —ADVERB
denseness —NOUN
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