different between dense vs robust

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)

1. Having relatively high density.

   Synonym: solid

2. Compact; crowded together.

   Synonyms: compact, crowded, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact

   Antonyms: diffuse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse

3. Thick; difficult to penetrate.

   Synonyms: thick, solid

   Antonym: thin
4. 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

5. 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

6. (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

7. (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)

1. A thicket.

Anagrams

• Denes, Edens, Sneed, denes, edens, needs, sende, sneed

Esperanto

Etymology

From densa +? -e.

Adverb

dense

1. densely

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin densus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??s/

Adjective

dense (plural denses)

1. 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

1. 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?)

1. 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

1. Compound of the second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of dar, den and the pronoun se.

English

Etymology

From Latin r?bustus, from r?bur, r?bus (“strength, hard timber, oak”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????b?st/, /???b?st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o??b?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: ro?bust

Adjective

robust (comparative robuster or more robust, superlative robustest or most robust) (see usage notes)

1. Evincing strength and health; strong.

   He was a robust man of six feet four.

   robust health

   A robust wall was put up.

   • 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn

     She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.

2. Violent; rough; rude.
3. Requiring strength or vigor

   robust employment

4. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety
5. (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
6. (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
7. (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

Usage notes

• "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".

Derived terms

• robustness

Translations

See also

• Robust statistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• brotus, or bust, turbos

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin r?bustus, first attested circa 1400.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ru?bust/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ro?bust/

Adjective

robust (feminine robusta, masculine plural robusts or robustos, feminine plural robustes)

1. robust (evincing strength and health)

   Synonyms: fort, vigorós

Derived terms

• robustament
• robustesa

Further reading

• “robust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “robust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “robust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

References

German

Etymology

From Latin r?bustus, from r?bur, r?bus (“strength, hard timber, oak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?b?st/
• Hyphenation: ro?bust

Adjective

robust (comparative robuster, superlative am robustesten)

1. robust

Declension

Derived terms

• Robustheit

Further reading

• “robust” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin robustus

Adjective

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

1. robust, sturdy

References

• “robust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin robustus

Adjective

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

1. robust, sturdy

References

• “robust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French robuste.

Adjective

robust m or n (feminine singular robust?, masculine plural robu?ti, feminine and neuter plural robuste)

1. robust

Declension