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dense(dictionary)
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dense liver(medicine)
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large, dense breast lesions(medicine)

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[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin; Origin: densus]
made of or containing a lot of things or people that are very close together
-synonym thick thick
dense undergrowth/forest/woodland/jungle etc
::A narrow track wound steeply up through dense forest.
::a dense rurally-based population
difficult to see through or breathe in
dense fog/smoke/cloud
::dense black smoke
informal not able to understand things easily
-synonym stupid stupid
::Am I being dense? I don't quite understand.
a dense piece of writing is difficult to understand because it contains a lot of information or uses complicated language
technical a substance that is dense has a lot of mass in relation to its size
::Water is eight hundred times denser than air.
-- densely adv
::a densely populated area
-- denseness n [U]