dense

Engleski

Etymology

From Middle French dense, from Latinski dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) MFA^(ključ): /dɛns/

• Audio (US)

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• Rime: -ɛns

Adjective

dense (comparative denser, superlative densest)

1. Having relatively high density.

   Sinonim: solid

2. Compact; crowded together.

   Sinonims: compact, crowded, packed, Thesaurus:compact

   Antonims: diffuse, Thesaurus:diffuse

3. Thick; difficult to penetrate.

   Sinonims: thick, solid

   Antonim: thin

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4. Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

   Sinonims: cloudy, opaque, Thesaurus:opaque

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

5. Obscure, or difficult to understand.

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

   Antonims: clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable, Thesaurus:comprehensible

6. (mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See the Wikipedia article on dense sets for a mathematical definition.

   Antonim: meager

7. (of a person) Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.

   Sinonims: dumb, slow, stupid, thick, Thesaurus:stupid

   Antonims: bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart, Thesaurus:intelligent

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Antonyms

• (crowded together): diffuse, few and far between (of things as opposed to one thing), scattered, sparse, rarefied (scientific, to describe gases)

Derived terms

• dense array
• dense blazingstar
• dense-in-itself

 

Translations

having relatively high density

• Albanian: i dendur (sq)
• Arabic: كَثِيف‎ (kaṯīf), غَلِيظ‎ (ḡalīẓ)
• Armenian: խիտ (hy) (xit)
• Azerbaijani: qalın (az), sıx (az)
• Belarusian: gustы́ (be) (hustý), ščы́lьnы (be) (ščýlʹny)
• Bengali: ঘন (bn) (ghôn)
• Bulgarian: gъst (bg) (gǎst), plъ́ten (bg) (plǎ́ten)
• Burmese: ထူ (my) (htu)
• Catalan: dens (ca)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: hustý (cs)
• Danish: kompakt, tæt
• Dutch: dicht (nl)
• Esperanto: densa
• Estonian: tihe
• Even: nog (nog)
• Finnish: tiheä (fi)
• French: dense (fr)
• Galician: denso, basto
• 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: қalың (kk) (qalyñ)
• Khmer: ជុក (km) (cuk), ក្រាស់ (km) (krah)
• Korean: 짙다 (ko) (jitda)
• Kyrgyz: kalың (ky) (kalıñ), žыš (ky) (cış)
• Lao: ຖີ່ (thī), ແໜ້ນ (nǣn), ທຶບ (thưp)
• Latin: dēnsus
• Latvian: blīvs
• Lithuanian: tankus, tirštas
• Macedonian: gust (gust)
• Malay: padat (ms), tebal (ms)
• Maori: pururua (of vegetation), whakaapi, apiapi
• Middle English: sad
• Mongolian: nяgt (mn) (njagt)
• Nanai: lugdi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tett

• Occitan: dens (oc)
• Ottoman Turkish: قویو‎ (koyu)
• Pashto: ټينګ‎ (ṭing)
• Persian: چگال‎ (fa) (čegâl), غلیظ‎ (fa) (ğaliz)
• Polish: gęsty (pl), szczelny (pl)
• Portuguese: denso (pt)
• Romanian: dens (ro)
• Russian: gustóй (ru) (gustój) (viscous), plótnый (ru) (plótnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: gȗst

  Roman: gȗst (sh)

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

  Lower Sorbian: gusty

• Spanish: denso (es)
• Swedish: tät (sv)
• Tajik: zič (zič), ғaliz (ġaliz), ғafs (tg) (ġafs)
• Thai: แน่น (th) (nɛ̂ɛn), ทึบ (th) (tʉ́p)
• Tibetan: མཐུག་པོ (mthug po)
• Turkish: yoğun (tr), sık (tr), kalın (tr)
• Turkmen: ýygjam, goýy
• Ukrainian: gustíй (uk) (hustýj), щі́lьniй (uk) (ščílʹnyj)
• Urdu: گهنا‎ (ghanā)
• Uzbek: zich (uz), qalin (uz), tigʻiz (uz)
• Vietnamese: đặc (vi), dày đặc (vi), chặt (vi)
• Zazaki: qalın c

compact; crowded together

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

  Ancient: πυκνός (puknós)

• Hiligaynon: garót, magarót
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} denso (it)
• Latin: spissus
• Macedonian: zbien (zbien)
• Maori: apiapi, whakaapi, whakaapi, pururua (of vegetation)
• Middle English: sad
• Pashto: ګڼ‎ (gëṇ)
• Polish: zwarty (pl), zbity (pl)
• Portuguese: compacto (pt), denso (pt)
• Russian: plótnый (ru) (plótnyj), kompáktnый (ru) (kompáktnyj)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gusty

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

thick; difficult to penetrate

• Armenian: խիտ (hy) (xit), թանձր (hy) (tʿanjr)
• Bulgarian: gъst (bg) (gǎst)
• Danish: tæt
• Finnish: tiheä (fi), tiivis (fi)
• Galician: denso
• German: dicht (de)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} denso (it)
• Macedonian: gust (gust)
• Maori: pururua (of vegetation)
• Middle English: sad
• Portuguese: denso (pt), espesso (pt)
• Russian: gustóй (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: neprozráčen (bg) (neprozráčen)
• Finnish: tiheä (fi), tiivis (fi)
• German: dicht (de)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} denso (it)
• Russian: neprozráčnый (ru) (neprozráčnyj)
• Spanish: denso (es), tupido (es) (a forest)

obscure, or difficult to understand

• Finnish: hämärä (fi)
• French: obscur (fr)
• German: dicht (de)
• Italian: pastoso (it), ^{(please verify)} denso (it)
• Spanish: obscuro (es), enigmático (es)

math: being a well-approximating subset

• Danish: tæt
• Finnish: tiheä (fi)
• German: dicht (de)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} denso (it)
• Polish: gęsty (pl)
• Spanish: (subconjunto) denso (es)

slow to comprehend; of low intelligence

• Bulgarian: tъp (bg) (tǎp), glupav (bg) (glupav)
• Finnish: pimeä (fi)
• French: bouché (fr)
• Hebrew: סָתוּם‎ (he) (satúm) (slang)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} denso (it)
• Polish: tępy (pl)
• Russian: tupóй (ru) (tupój), glúpый (ru) (glúpyj)
• Spanish: cabeza dura, 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)
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} densa (io)
• Mandarin: ^{(molim proverite)} 高密度的, ^{(molim proverite)} 浓密的; ^{(molim proverite)} 稠密的; ^{(molim proverite)} 密集的; ^{(molim proverite)} 不透明的; ^{(molim proverite)} 愚蠢的, ^{(molim proverite)} 理解能力差的
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} yoğun (tr)

Noun

dense (plural denses)

1. A thicket.

Anagrams

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

Esperanto

Etymology

From Afrikans.

Adverb

1. densely

Francuski

Etymology

Pozajmljeno od Latinski dēnsus.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /dɑ̃s/

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Adjective

dense

1. dense

Related terms

• condenser
• densité

Further reading

• Šablon:R:fr:TLFi

Italijanski

Adjective

dense f pl

1. ženskog roda množine of denso

Latinski

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) MFA^(ključ): /ˈden.seː/, [ˈd̪ẽː.seː]

Adverb

dēnsē (comparative dēnsius, superlative dēnsissimē)

1. closely, in rapid succession

Related terms

• dēnseō
• dēnsus
• dēnsō

 

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

Španski

Verb

dense

1. Šablon:es-verb form of/error dar.