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When I asked how this could be she waxed a little wroth at what she called my density, and asked if I did not appreciate that we should have to move at any rate in a year or two in order to provide the children with a bedroom apiece.

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being dense.
  2. noun The quantity of something per unit measure, especially per unit length, area, or volume.
  3. noun The mass per unit volume of a substance under specified conditions of pressure and temperature.
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  • Yet the sun itself is sitting right in the middle of a four-hundred-light-year-wide hole in the dust, a bubble in which the density is about a twentieth of its average value. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • My site is at present showing Zero PR and I am sure it'll be updated in next two months. keyword density, and so on to calculate it. —  SitePoint » News & Trends
  • I used to think the density was a big deal, along with cost, but maybe that's changing. —  SQLServerCentral.com Articles
  • The notion of that preliminary approach to estimating the function for increase of potential relative population-density, then implies a rate of interaction between human existence and changes in the portion of universe within which the increases in rate of net increase of potential relative population-density are situated. —  LaRouche's Latest
  • The end of days for keyword density, the Sandbox hoax ... —  xml's Blinklist.com
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  1. = French densité = Spanish densidad = Portuguese densidade = Italian densità, from Latin densita(t-)s, thickness, from densus, thick: see dense.
 

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