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Answer for the clue "The amount per unit size ", 9 letters:
denseness

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Word definitions for denseness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being mentally slow and limited [syn: dumbness , slow-wittedness ] the spatial property of being crowded together [syn: concentration , density , compactness ] [ant: distribution ] the amount per unit size [syn: density ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Denseness \Dense"ness\, n. The quality of being dense; density.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being dense, especially in the sense of limited mental capacity.

Usage examples of denseness.

The millets are objectionable as nurse crops through the denseness of the shade which they furnish and also because of the heavy draught which they make on soil moisture.

Simon wrenched it along the serpentine course for a few hundred yards, and then the denseness of a bayhead barred them with a wiry thorny wall.

This is the result of the denseness of the overhead canopies, because of which the ground is much shaded, the factor which tends to Inhibit and limit ground growth.

I watched the light bob toward the small patch of denseness I knew to be the shed.

It spread its greasy denseness through The Narrows and far out over the Bay of Georgia.

The atmosphere had an innocent denseness, as if it had just been created, and the beautiful mulatto girls who waited hopelessly among the blood-red petals and the outmoded phonograph records knew ways of love that man had left behind forgotten in the earthly paradise.