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adjective, dens·er, dens·est.

  1. having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest; dense population.
  2. stupid; slow-witted; dull.
  3. intense; extreme: dense ignorance.
  4. relatively opaque; transmitting little light, as a photographic negative, optical glass, or color.
  5. difficult to understand or follow because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style: a dense philosophical essay.
  6. Mathematics. of or relating to a subset of a topological space in which every neighborhood of every point in the space contains at least one point of the subset.

adjective

  1. thickly crowded or closely seta dense crowd
  2. thick; impenetrablea dense fog
  3. physics having a high density
  4. stupid; dull; obtuse
  5. (of a photographic negative) having many dark or exposed areas
  6. (of an optical glass, colour, etc) transmitting little or no light
adj.

early 15c., from Middle French dense and directly from Latin densus “thick, crowded; cloudy,” perhaps from PIE root *dens- “dense, thick” (cf. Greek dasus “hairy, shaggy”). Sense of “stupid” is first recorded 1822.

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