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DENSE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
Example:
worked with the slow students
Synonyms:
dense; dim; dull; dumb; obtuse; slow
Classified under:
Similar:
stupid (lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity)
Derivation:
denseness (the quality of being mentally slow and limited)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having high relative density or specific gravity
Example:
dense as lead
Classified under:
Similar:
heavy (of comparatively great physical weight or density)
Derivation:
denseness; density (the amount per unit size)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Hard to pass through because of dense growth
Example:
thick woods
Synonyms:
dense; thick
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
impenetrable (not admitting of penetration or passage into or through)
Derivation:
denseness; density (the spatial property of being crowded together)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
Example:
impenetrable gloom
Synonyms:
dense; heavy; impenetrable
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
thick (relatively dense in consistency)
Derivation:
density (the amount per unit size)
Context examples:
Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mice lacking the c-Fos gene have overly dense bone and decreased bone resorption due to reduced osteoclast differentiation, indicating that c-Fos is an important mediator of osteoclast differentiation.
(Bone Remodeling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The Company stood peering into the dense fog-wreath, amidst a silence so profound that the dripping of the water from the rocks and the breathing of the horses grew loud upon the ear.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Examination of these neurons in diseased tissue has revealed the presence of Lewy bodies, dense aggregates that include the protein alpha-synuclein.
(Parkinson's Disease Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The material may have flowed upward from Ceres' interior because it is less dense than surrounding materials.
(Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution, NASA)
When a massive star dies, it explodes as a supernova and leaves behind either a black hole or an incredibly dense object called a neutron star.
(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)
But with a mass around seven times greater than the Earth, and hence a much higher density, it implies that the exoplanet is probably made of rock with a dense iron core.
(Super-Earth in Habitable Zone, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Supermassive black holes lurk in the cores of most galaxies, and when they gobble up matter they also heat the surrounding gas and expel it from the host galaxy in powerful, dense winds.
(Stars Born in Winds from Supermassive Black Holes, ESO)
The harsh coat is medium to long, with a dense under coat and a straight, black-tipped, outer coat which produces a characteristic black overlay.
(Belgian Tervuren, NCI Thesaurus)
Electron-dense cytoplasmic particles bounded by a single membrane, such as PEROXISOMES, GLYOXYSOMES, and glycosomes.
(Peroxisome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
