dense

Etymology

From Средњи Француски dense, from Латински densus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) МФА^(кључ): /dɛns/

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Adjective

dense (comparative denser, superlative densest)

1. Having relatively high density.

   Синоним: solid

2. Compact; crowded together.

   Синоними: compact, crowded, packed, Thesaurus:compact

   Antonymи: diffuse, Thesaurus:diffuse

3. Thick; difficult to penetrate.

   Синоними: thick, solid

   Antonym: thin

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4. Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

   Синоними: cloudy, opaque, Thesaurus:opaque

   Antonymи: clear, diaphanous, see-through, translucent, transparent, Thesaurus:transparent, Thesaurus:translucent

5. Obscure, or difficult to understand.

   Синоними: abstruse, difficult, hard, incomprehensible, obscure, tough, Thesaurus:incomprehensible

   Antonymи: clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable, 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.

   Синоними: dumb, slow, stupid, thick, Thesaurus:stupid

   Antonymи: bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart, 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

having relatively high density

• Albanian: i dendur (sq)
• Arabic: كَثِيف‎ (kaṯīf), غَلِيظ‎ (ḡalīẓ)
• Armenian: խիտ (hy) (xit)
• Azerbaijani: qalın (az), sıx (az)
• Belarusian: густы́ (hustý), шчы́льны (ščýlʹny)
• Bengali: ঘন (bn) (ghôn)
• Bulgarian: гъст (bg) (gǎst), плъ̀тен (bg) (plǎ̀ten)
• Burmese: ထူ (my) (htu)
• Catalan: dens (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密 (zh) (mì), 稠密 (zh) (chóumì), 濃 (zh), 浓 (zh) (nóng)

• Czech: hustý (cs)
• Danish: kompakt, tæt
• Dutch: dicht (nl)
• Esperanto: densa
• Estonian: tihe
• Finnish: tiheä (fi)
• French: dense (fr)
• Galician: denso m
• Georgian: ხშირი (xširi), მჭიდრო (mč̣idro)
• German: dicht (de)
• Greek: πυκνός (el) (pyknós)

  Ancient: πυκνός (puknós), σπιδνός (spidnós)

• Hebrew: עבות \ עָבֹת‎ (he) ('avót)
• Hindi: घना (hi) (ghanā)
• Hungarian: sűrű (hu)
• Icelandic: þéttur (is)
• Irish: dlúth
• Italian: denso (it)
• Japanese: 濃い (ja) (こい, koi), 密 (ja) (mitsu)
• Kazakh: қалың (kk) (qalıñ)
• Khmer: ជុក (km) (cuk), ក្រាស់ (km) (krah)
• Korean: 짙다 (ko) (jitda)

• Kyrgyz: калың (ky) (kalıñ), жыш (ky) (cış)
• Lao: ຖີ່ (thī), ແໜ້ນ (nǣn), ທຶບ (thưp)
• Latin: dēnsus
• Latvian: blīvs
• Lithuanian: tankus, tirštas
• Macedonian: густ (gust)
• Malay: padat (ms), tebal
• Maori: pururua (of vegetation), whakaapi, apiapi
• Mongolian: нягт (mn) (njagt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tett

• Pashto: ټينګ‎ (ṭing)
• Persian: چگال‎ (fa) (čegâl), غلیظ‎ (fa) (ğaliz)
• Polish: gęsty (pl), szczelny (pl)
• Portuguese: denso (pt)
• Romanian: dens (ro)
• Russian: густо́й (ru) (gustój) (viscous), пло́тный (ru) (plótnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гу̑ст

  Roman: gȗst (sh)

• Slovak: hustý
• Slovene: góst (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gusty

• Spanish: denso (es) m
• Swedish: tät (sv)
• Tajik: зич (zič), ғализ (ġaliz), ғафс (tg) (ġafs)
• Thai: แน่น (th) (nɛ̂ɛn), ทึบ (th) (tʉ́p)
• Turkish: yoğun (tr), sık (tr), kalın (tr)
• Turkmen: ýygjam, goýy
• Ukrainian: густи́й (uk) (hustýj), щі́льний (uk) (ščílʹnyj)
• Urdu: گهنا‎ (ghanā)
• Uzbek: zich (uz), qalin (uz), tigʻiz (uz)
• Vietnamese: đặc (vi), dày đặc (vi), chặt (vi)

compact; crowded together

• Armenian: խիտ (hy) (xit), թանձր (hy) (tʿanjr)
• Bulgarian: плъ̀тен (bg) (plǎ̀ten), компа́ктен (bg) (kompákten)
• Czech: hustý (cs)
• Danish: tæt
• Finnish: tiheä (fi), tiivis (fi), taaja (fi), sankka (fi)
• Galician: compacto m
• German: dicht (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: πυκνός (puknós)

• Hiligaynon: garót, magarót
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} denso (it)[[Категорија: Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи]]

• Latin: spissus
• Macedonian: збиен (zbien)
• Maori: apiapi, whakaapi, whakaapi, pururua (of vegetation)
• Pashto: ګڼ‎ (gëṇ)
• Polish: zwarty (pl) m, zbity (pl) m
• Portuguese: compacto (pt), denso (pt)
• Russian: пло́тный (ru) (plótnyj), компа́ктный (ru) (kompáktnyj)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gusty

• Spanish: compacto (es) m, macizo (es) m
• Swedish: tät (sv), kompakt (sv)
• Vietnamese: dày (vi), dày đặc (vi)

thick; difficult to penetrate

• Armenian: խիտ (hy) (xit), թանձր (hy) (tʿanjr)
• Bulgarian: гъст (bg) (gǎst)
• Danish: tæt
• Finnish: tiheä (fi), tiivis (fi)
• Galician: denso m
• German: dicht (de)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} denso (it)[[Категорија: Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи]]
• Macedonian: густ (gust)

• Maori: pururua (of vegetation)
• Portuguese: denso (pt), espesso (pt)
• Russian: густо́й (ru) (gustój)
• Slovene: góst (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gusty

• Spanish: denso (es), espeso (es)

opaque; allowing little light to pass through

• Armenian: թանձր (hy) (tʿanjr)
• Bulgarian: непрозра́чен (bg) (neprozráčen)
• Finnish: tiheä (fi), tiivis (fi)
• German: dicht (de)

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} denso (it)[[Категорија: Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи]]
• Russian: непрозра́чный (ru) (neprozráčnyj)
• Spanish: denso (es) m, tupido (es) m (a forest)

obscure, or difficult to understand

• Finnish: hämärä (fi)
• French: obscur (fr)
• German: dicht (de)

• Italian: pastoso (it) m, ^{(please verify)} denso (it)[[Категорија: Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи]]
• Spanish: obscuro (es) m, enigmático (es) m

math: being a well-approximating subset

• Danish: tæt
• Finnish: tiheä (fi)
• German: dicht (de)

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} denso (it)[[Категорија: Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи]]
• Polish: gęsty (pl)
• Spanish: (subconjunto) denso (es)

slow to comprehend; of low intelligence

• Bulgarian: тъп (bg) (tǎp), глупав (bg) (glupav)
• Finnish: pimeä (fi)
• French: bouché (fr)
• Hebrew: סָתוּם‎ (he) (satúm) (slang)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} denso (it)[[Категорија: Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи]]

• Polish: tępy (pl)
• Russian: тупо́й (ru) (tupój), глу́пый (ru) (glúpyj)
• Spanish: cabeza dura m or f, menso (es)
• Swedish: trög (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} צפוף‎ (he) (tzafuf)[[Категорија: Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи]]
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} densa (io)[[Категорија: Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи]]
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 高密度的[[Категорија:Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи|DENSE]], ^{(please verify)} 浓密的[[Категорија:Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи|DENSE]]; ^{(please verify)} 稠密的[[Категорија:Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи|DENSE]]; ^{(please verify)} 密集的[[Категорија:Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи|DENSE]]; ^{(please verify)} 不透明的[[Категорија:Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи|DENSE]]; ^{(please verify)} 愚蠢的[[Категорија:Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи|DENSE]], ^{(please verify)} 理解能力差的[[Категорија:Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи|DENSE]]

• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} yoğun (tr)[[Категорија: Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи]]

Noun

dense (plural denses)

1. A thicket.

Anagrams

• Denes, Edens, Sneed, denes, edens, needs, sende, sneed ^{(alphagram deens)}

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Esperanto

Etymology

From Африканс.

Adverb

dense

1. densely

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Латински densus.

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /dɑ̃s/

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Adjective

dense (plural denses)

1. dense

Related terms

• condenser
• densité

Further reading

• “dense” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Adjective

dense f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective denso.

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Latin

Etymology

From dēnsus (“dense, close, frequent”) +‎ -ē (adverbial suffix).

Adverb

dēnsē (comparative dēnsius, superlative dēnsissimē)

1. closely, in rapid succession

Related terms

• dēnseō
• dēnsō
• dēnsus

 

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

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Spanish

Verb

dense

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