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dense 1. Physics having a high density 2. (of a photographic negative) having many dark or exposed areas 3. (of an optical glass, colour, etc.) transmitting little or no light dense [dens] (graphic arts) Very opaque because of a concentration of material, as pertaining to a negative or transparency that has been overdeveloped or overexposed. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Now, however preposterous it may at first seem to talk of any creature's skin as being of that sort of consistence and thickness, yet in point of fact these are no arguments against such a presumption; because you cannot raise any other dense enveloping layer from the whale's body but that same blubber; and the outermost enveloping layer of any animal, if reasonably dense, what can that be but the skin? Immediately there was a crashing through the yellow canes, and a sound of voices from the dense green jungle that marked the morass through which I had run on the previous day. An angry wind blew cold and raised dense clouds of dust, while the trees shook and moaned in a weird way. |
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