density
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
density/ˈdensəti/
▶noun (pl. 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’.
'density' also found in these Oxford entries:
aerogel
- B
- big bang
- big crunch
- bpi
- British thermal unit
- centroid
- concrete jungle
- conjugation
- critical point
- D
- degenerate
- densitometer
- Graham's law
- HDL
- heavy
- heavy metal
- high-density lipoprotein
- hydrometer
- kinematic viscosity
- LDL
- light
- low-density lipoprotein
- magnetic induction
- MDF
- neutron star
- optical density
- orbital
- original gravity
- packing density
- rarefaction
- relative density
- rho
- satellite
- schlieren
- shadowgraph
- singularity
- specific gravity
- stokes
- tesla
- thermohaline
- ultrasonography
- vapour density
- weight
- ylem
