Density
['densɪtɪ] or ['dɛnsəti]
Definition
(n.) The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Depth of shade.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Closeness, compactness.
Editor: Xenia
Examples
- When light passes from air into water, or from any transparent substance into another of different density, its direction is changed, and it emerges along an entirely new path (Fig. 64). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In 1844 he proceeded to apply the principles maintained in his earlier study to changes of temperature as related to changes in the density of gases. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The lighter the weight of the substance, or less its density, the easier these rays passed through it, or the more transparent such bodies were to the rays. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Differences of temperature and density of the parts of the original mass account for the eccentricity of orbits, and deviations fro m the plane of the equator. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It follows from this law that the density and tension, and therefore the expansive force of a gas, are proportional to the compressing force to which it is subjected. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They were enabled, from the density of the forest, to approach within a few hundred yards of our advance before being discovered. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We have seen that light is bent when it passes from one medium to another of different density, and that objects viewed by refracted light do not appear in their proper positions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In this circulating vaporous disk about the sun differences of density give rise to zones not unlike the rings of Saturn. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The air was so thick with the darkness of the day and the density of the fall that we could see but a very little way in any direction. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Any object of higher density, such as a ring upon the finger, clearly establishes its shadow by virtue of its greater density. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- At a height of twenty miles there is scarcely any air at all--not one hundredth part of the density of air at the surface of the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In such condition, Mrs. Sparsit stood hidden in the density of the shrubbery, considering what next? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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