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Meaning of dense

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  dense
      adj 1: permitting little if any light to pass through because of
             denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog";
             "impenetrable gloom" [syn: {dense}, {heavy},
             {impenetrable}]
      2: hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense
         vegetation"; "thick woods" [syn: {dense}, {thick}]
      3: having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as
         lead"
      4: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so
         dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met
         anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning,
         at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb
         officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either
         normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with
         the slow students" [syn: {dense}, {dim}, {dull}, {dumb},
         {obtuse}, {slow}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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