density
Healthcare settings have a high density of people vulnerable to infection.
At this critical period, cod require to feed on high plankton densities.
The highest density of larvae were observed in wetlands.
It is much less radioactive than other uranium isotopes, and its high density makes it useful for armour.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Thick, dense and heavy
blocky
cakey
chunkily
chunkiness
chunky
claggy
dense
densely
heavily
heaviness
heftily
hefty
lumpen
ponderous
thicken
thickening
thickly
thickness
ultra-heavy
weigh

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Large in number or quantity
Mass, area, weight & volume in general

high-density | Business English

high-density
adjective
 PROPERTYukus
consisting of a lot of buildings close together:
Expensive executive homes do not sit easily with rows of high-density terraced housing.
a high-density area/suburb
high-density building/development

Examples of high density

high density
The high-density pellet core is surrounded by a hot, fully ionized low-density corona.
This type of housing provision drew working-class residents away from the city centre and located them instead in high-density residential areas on the urban fringe.
We used a high-density database consisting of 5 hours of recordings per week together with a maternal diary for the previous 6 weeks.
Electrophysiological recording of randomly chosen cells from high-density cultures demonstrated the presence of two cell classes, based on voltage- and glutamategated currents.
The key issue for the high-density compression is the uniform ablation.
In addition, the rapidly ionizing high-density medium modifies the temporal structure of femtosecond laser pulse due to self-phase modulation.
Then the sample density is used to test whether the high-density cell could have arisen by chance.
The problem of delivery of high-density information via the network is exacerbated when the content has an interactive component, which implies a realtime rendering activity.
The ridge in the low-density regime is due to the anomalous skin effect, and the ridge in the high-density regime is the collisional absorption.
Due to the scarcity of data on high-density fluid inclusions, it was impossible to locate a deeper magma reservoir.
In summary, the evolution of the high-density electron beam in the field of the super-intense laser pulse was considered.
Consequently, a high-density electron beam is generated and at the same time, the pulse length of the electron bunch becomes sub-femto second.
The thermal effect is less relevant for the high-density case, because of the effect of the self-consistent electromagnetic field, already discussed.
The adoption of high-density plantations will demand short genotypes of superior performance.
The code is thus constrained only by the time- and space-step sizes, and should be suitable for direct simulation of large-scale and high-density beam-plasma interactions.
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