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A thicket.
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Having relatively high density.
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Compact; crowded together.
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Thick; difficult to penetrate.
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Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
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Obscure, or difficult to understand.
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Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on dense sets for mathematical definition.
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(of a person) Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
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Examples of dense in a Sentence
The dawn brought cool air and dense fog.
Even in the dense underbrush, it had found another rock.
Deciding to use the sun to orient herself, she detoured around several dense patches of blackberry bushes.
This zone has an abundant rainfall, dense forests and a fertile soil.
The path became more indistinct with each step, eventually coming to an end in dense underbrush.
The troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by them it was difficult to get out again.
A mixed forest of deciduous and conifer trees formed a dense covering of mottled greens.
But as traffic becomes more dense, year by year, the rebuilding process is constant, and American railway lines are gradually becoming safer.
It was then in the midst of dense forests and was wholly unconnected by roads with other parts of the state.
But the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense mass.
The fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could not see ten paces ahead.
It grows in marshes, ditches, pools and drains in meadows, and sometimes obstructs the flow of water with its dense matted roots.
The lake is nowhere of great depth, and about midway numerous mud-banks, marshes, islands and dense growths of aqueous plants stretch across its surface.
They traveled through miles of wild country where the hills were covered with a dense undergrowth of brush.
The dense fog clears slowly, then whips away to reveal a wall of stark, dazzling whiteness.
The lagoons are surrounded by dense belts of reeds, and the coast-land is covered with low, impenetrable bush.
Sumatra, the largest of the islands, is but thinly peopled; the greater part of the surface is covered with dense forest, the cultivated area being comparatively small, confined to the low lands, and chiefly in the volcanic region near the centre of the island.
For a while the crowd was less dense, but suddenly all heads were bared, and everyone rushed forward in one direction.
In most places the jungle is so dense that it is impossible to force a way through it without the aid of a wood-knife, and even the wild beasts use well-worn game-tracks through the forest.
This was filled with a dense, white mist.
It is covered with a dense soft fur 4 in.
Some of the islets were still uninhabited, covered with a dense low growth which served as cover for game and even for wolves.
The vegetation of the island is characterized by tropical luxuriance, - the moutainous regions being clad with dense forest, in which various species of palms, the camphor-tree (Laurus Camplaora), and the aloe are conspicuous.
Montana types soon produce a dense tangle of stems for nesting birds.
A great part of the island is clothed with dense forest, in which many valuable hardwood trees are found.
There are patches of dense reeds, reaching to ft.
On the 6th of October, while marching through dense bush at Erigo, the British force was ambuscaded.
The woods are so dense over large districts as to be impenetrable, except by cutting a path foot by foot through the close network of vines and undergrowth.
Fortunately a dense fog hid the helpless masses on the Landgrafenberg from sight of the Prussian gunners.
The climate is very uncertain, the weather changing suddenly from bright sunshine (when mosquitos often swarm) to dense fog or heavy falls of snow and icy winds.
Taking such an easily surveyable area as the North Sea, the quantity of relatively warm and dense Atlantic water entering it from year to year can be estimated by the method of hydrographic sections.
On the surface, where the sand is bathed by the tidal water, the ferrous sulphide becomes oxidized and the sand is bleached, but underneath it is dense black or grey, as the case may be.
From under the shoulders on each side springs a dense tuft of goldenorange plumes, about 2 ft.
In the Paris Exhibition of 1878 bricks very hard and dense in character, said to be of pure alumina, were exhibited by Muller & Co.
South coast There is an extensive boulder plain covered by dense kelp inshore of Lee Rocks.
In ancient times it was surrounded by dense forests, and was the centre of many legends.
They parade in dense throngs and make the street impassable.
This is a dense tussock forming grass with golden yellow leaves.
The Norwegian Forest cat is known for its dense, rich fur with a wooly undercoat covered by long, coarse guard hairs.
Natural glass, like obsidian, is a dense volcanic glass, and has been used by man for millennia.
Within its borders are snow-capped mountains, smoking volcanoes, large rivers, lush tropical coastal plains and dense Amazonian jungle.
Ground Cover Plants - Plants that carpet the ground with dense growth suppressing weeds.
The northern slopes of the Elburz and the lowlands which lie between them and the Caspian, and together form the provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran and Astarabad, are covered with dense forest and traversed by hundreds (Persian writers say 1362) of perennial rivers and streams. The breadth of the lowlands between the foot of the hills and the sea is from 2 to 25 m., the greatest breadth being in the meridian of Resht in Gilan, and in the districts of Amol, Sari and Barfurush in Mazandaran.
The Sea of Okhotsk, separated from the Pacific by the Kurile Archipelago and from the Sea of Japan by the islands of Sakhalin and Yezo, is notorious as one of the worst seas of the world, owing to its dense fogs and its masses of floating ice.
In 1662, as appears by a map still extant, there were i 50 houses within the wall, forming five streets and as many lanes; and the upland districts around were one dense forest of giant oaks and sycamores, yielding an unfailing supply of timber to the woodmen of Carrickfergus.
In a few minutes the batteries on the extreme Prussian left were completely overwhelmed, and suddenly dense lines of French skirmishers emerged from a fold in the ground upon their flank and front, and the gunners were compelled to resort to case-shot, so imminent was their danger.
The plants are nearly allied to Cereus, differing chiefly in the floriferous portion developing these longer and more attenuated hair-like spines, which surround the base of the flowers and form a dense woolly head or cephalium.
They are covered with short hairs which form a velvet-like pile, so dense that water cannot penetrate.
The penetration of warmth from the surface is effected by direct radiation, and by convection by particles rendered dense by evaporation increasing salinity.
The very dense water of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean makes the column of water salter and heavier and the level lower than in the ocean beyond the straits.