density

名词 n.
/ˈdɛn.sɪ.ti/|/ˈdɛn.sə.ti/    /ˈdɛn.sə.ti/|[ˈdɛn.sə.ɾi]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The amount of a certain phenomenon (such as stuff, things, energy, or otherwise) in a given area (surface area) or volume (amount of space).; A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume. countable,uncountable
    — In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.
  2. The amount of a certain phenomenon (such as stuff, things, energy, or otherwise) in a given area (surface area) or volume (amount of space).; The ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed. countable,uncountable
    — The number of particles per unit volume of a specified volume can be considered to be the particle density for the specified volume.
  3. The probability that an outcome will fall into a given range, per unit of that range; the relative likelihood of possible values of a continuous random variable. countable,uncountable
  4. Stupidity. countable,uncountable
    — There's only so much density that pedagogy can penetrate.

词形变化

densities plural

词源

Borrowed from Middle French densité or Latin densitas. Morphologically dense + -ity.
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