density
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density
- /ˈdɛn.sɪ.ti/ UK
- /ˈdɛn.sə.ti/ UK
- /ˈdɛn.sə.ti/ US
- [ˈdɛn.sə.ɾi] US
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French densité or Latin densitas. Morphologically dense + -ity.
noun densities
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A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.
In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.
Similar: denseness, mass density
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The ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed.
The number of particles per unit volume of a specified volume can be considered to be the particle density for the specified volume.
Similar: denseness, number density
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The probability that an outcome will fall into a given range, per unit of that range; the relative likelihood of possible values of a continuous random variable.
Similar: probability density
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Stupidity.
There's only so much density that pedagogy can penetrate.
Similar: denseness, thickheadedness, blockheadedness
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: compactness, denseness, concentration, volumetric, volume, fabric, mass, population, thickness, spissitude, populated, lipoprotein, sparse, dense, high-density, densely
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noun physics: amount of matter contained by a given volume
| Español | densidad |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 밀도 mildo |
| 日本語 | 密度 mitsudo |
| 中文 | 密度 mìdù |
| हिन्दी | घनत्व ghanatva |
| Português | densidade |
| Français | masse volumique |
| Deutsch | Dichte, Massendichte |
| Italiano | densità |
| Ελληνικά | πυκνότητα pyknótita |
| Română | densitate |
| Русский | пло́тность plótnostʹ, густота́ gustotá |
| Tiếng Việt | khối lượng riêng |
| العربية | كَثَافَة kaṯāfa |
| עברית | צפיפות החומר, צְפִיפוּת ts'fifut |
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