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dense
English
Etymology
From Middle French dense, from Latin densus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /d?ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
Adjective
dense (comparative denser, superlative densest)
- Having relatively high density.
- Synonym: solid
- Compact; crowded together.
- Synonyms: compact, crowded, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact
- Antonyms: diffuse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Synonyms: thick, solid
- Antonym: thin
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- Synonyms: cloudy, opaque; see also Thesaurus:opaque
- Antonyms: clear, diaphanous, see-through, translucent, transparent; see also Thesaurus:transparent, Thesaurus:translucent
- Obscure, or difficult to understand.
- Synonyms: abstruse, difficult, hard, incomprehensible, obscure, tough; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
- Antonyms: clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable; see also Thesaurus:comprehensible
- (mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on dense sets for mathematical definition.
- Antonym: meager
- (of a person) Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
- Synonyms: dumb, slow, stupid, thick; see also Thesaurus:stupid
- Antonyms: bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart; see also Thesaurus:intelligent
Antonyms
- (crowded together): diffuse, few and far between (of things as opposed to one thing), scattered, sparse, rarefied (scientific, to describe gases)
Translations
Noun
dense (plural denses)
- A thicket.
Anagrams
- Denes, Edens, Sneed, denes, edens, needs, sende, sneed
Esperanto
Etymology
From densa +? -e.
Adverb
dense
- densely
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin densus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??s/
Adjective
dense (plural denses)
- dense
Related terms
- condenser
- densité
Further reading
- “dense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Adjective
dense
- feminine plural of denso
Latin
Etymology
From d?nsus (“dense, close, frequent”) +? -? (adverbial suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?den.se?/, [?d???s?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?den.se/, [?d??ns?]
Adverb
d?ns? (comparative d?nsius, superlative d?nsissim?)
- closely, in rapid succession
Related terms
References
- 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
Spanish
Verb
dense
- Compound of the second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of dar, den and the pronoun se.
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lense
English
Noun
lense (plural lenses)
- Misspelling of lens.
- 1911, Motography, volume 5, issue 6, page 176:
- When a lense is described as of 4 inch focus, it means that such a lens is capable of bringing parallel rays to a point at a distance of 4 inches from the lens.
- 2015, Steve Rutherford, How to Photograph Landscapes like a Pro ?ISBN
- Basically, a beam of light passing through a lens parallel to the optical axis converges to form a focused image on the film. Spherical aberration is the term for an optical fault caused by the spherical form of a lense that produces different […]
- 1911, Motography, volume 5, issue 6, page 176:
- (proscribed) Alternative spelling of lens
Usage notes
- Lense is accepted as an alternative spelling by Webster's Third New International Dictionary, but proscribed as a misspelling by Garner's Modern American Usage, Paul Brians’ Common Errors in English Usage, Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English and others.
Verb
lense (third-person singular simple present lenses, present participle lensing, simple past and past participle lensed)
- Misspelling of lens.
- (proscribed) Alternative spelling of lens
Anagrams
- Elsen, Leens, Neels, elsen, lenes, selen-
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