density
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)
- the amount per unit sizeSynonyms: densenessType of compactnessKinds rarity, flux density, optical density, bits per inch, relative density
- the spatial property of being crowded togetherSynonyms: concentrationdensenesstightnesscompactnessOpposite dispersionType of spacing, spatial arrangement
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Translations
Noun mass per unit volume (physics)
- Spanish
- densidad
- French
- masse volumique
- German
- Dichte
- Italian
- densità
- Portuguese
- densidade
- Turkish
- yoğunluk
- Russian
- пло́тность plótnostʹ
- Arabic
- كَثَافَة kaṯāfa
- Chinese
- 密度 mìdù
- Japanese
- 密度 mitsudo
21 more languages
- Dutch
- dichtheid
- Polish
- gęstość
- Swedish
- täthet
- Greek
- πυκνότητα pyknótita
- Korean
- 밀도 mildo
- Indonesian
- massa jenis
- Hungarian
- sűrűség
- Portuguese (PT)
- densidade
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 密度 mìdù
- Catalan
- densitat
- Czech
- hustota
- Danish
- massefylde
- Estonian
- tihedus
- Finnish
- tiheys
- Hebrew
- צְפִיפוּת ts'fifut
- Icelandic
- þéttleiki
- Kurdish
- tîrbûn
- Latvian
- blīvums
- Norwegian
- tetthet
- Romanian
- densitate
- Serbo-Croatian
- gustoća
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. densitas; cf. F. densité.
1. The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; — opposed to rarity.
2. Physics The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard.
☞ For gases the standard substance is hydrogen, at a temperature of 0° Centigrade and a pressure of 760 millimeters. For liquids and solids the standard is water at a temperature of 4° Centigrade. The density of solids and liquids is usually called specific gravity, and the same is true of gases when referred to air as a standard.
3. Photography Depth of shade. Capt. William de Wiveleslie Abney
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54