DENSITY


Meaning of DENSITY in English

■ noun ( plural densities )

1》 the degree of compactness of a substance.

↘ Computing a measure of the amount of information on a storage medium.

↘the opacity of a photographic image.

2》 the quantity of people or things in a given area or space.

Origin

C17: from Fr. densité or L. densitas , from densus 'dense'.

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