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density

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Density \Den"si*ty\ (d[e^]n"s[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. densitas; cf. F. densit['e].] The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity . (Physics) The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (senseid en physics: amount of matter contained by a given volume)(context physics English) A measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Density and dense usually refer to a measure of how much of some entity is within a fixed amount of space. Types of density include:

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from French densité (16c.), from Old French dempsité (13c.), from Latin densitas "thickness," from densus "thick, dense" (see dense ).

Usage examples of density.

And consequently, as the accidents are preserved by Divine power when the substance is withdrawn, so, when matter is withdrawn, the qualities which go with matter, such as rarity and density, are preserved by Divine power.

The Russian astrophysicist Shklovsky has calculated that a type II supernovae 32 light-years from the sun could bath the earth with cosmic rays having an energy density 100 times that of the cosmic rays that now impinge upon the atmosphere.

Soy Zone Diet, supplemented with lesser amounts of fruits, which are higher in carbohydrate density.

By adjusting the parameters that determined density, Gamow and his colleagues developed a model that within the first thirty minutes of the Bang yielded a composition close to that which was observed.

We are plunging nearer the Eater now, and a standard Gaussian distribution for the density of small, meteor-sized debris would predict that we shall receive strikes at an exponentiating rate.

The propulsion plant of the Kaliningrad was far superior to any other in the fleet, for that matter was much more advanced than anything the Americans had, with their low-power density, water-cooled cores.

She discovered that Ty knows how to produce a diamond gel with a density only ten times more than air, yet with a tensile strength of a thousand tons per square inch.

The radar was pointed down into the dirt, and returned echoes from lumps of differing density.

Varieties of light glanced off the surface borders of air and water, water and glass, glass and oil, the whole room a medium of nonuniform density, these propagating waves graining her body, soon to be rubbed and soaped and misted, transformed in displaceable mass, passing through itself, beauty bare, an unfalsifiable and self-blinding essence, not subject to the judgments of mirrors, what Euclid might have danced to in the summer dusk.

Next, I put some of the saliva through the centrifuge, just to be sure the parasites and the viruses did indeed separate out at different densities.

If we had more pods, if we could get a better salvo density, it might still make sense to go after them, first.

But each of those powders has a different inherent density, or weight.

HRT increases breast density, which reduces the sensitivity and specificity of breast screening.

The other planet, shortchanged on the denser elements, was able to settle into an orbit with its partner that would seem, to those unfamiliar with the physics and densities involved, to bring it dangerously close to Vulcan.

Looking up, in fact, it was impossible to see anything except green, and more green: galaxies of starbloom, riotous armies of orchids, fruits of every color, shape, composition, and degree of ripeness, all blurred and softened and hidden by the omnipresent density of the mist.