density

Plural: densities

Noun

• The degree of compactness of a substance.
• the amount per unit size
• the spatial property of being crowded together
• A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.
• 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 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.
• Stupidity; denseness.

Examples

• The high density of consonants on his rack required a clever vowel extraction.
• The number of particles per unit volume of a specified volume can be considered to be the particle density for the specified volume.

Synonyms

compactness, concentration, denseness, tightness, mass density, number density, probability density

Antonyms

distribution

Related Words

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