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[den-si-tee] / ˈdɛn sɪ ti /


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This amendment would give City Council the flexibility to set higher limits to add density in order to adapt to a growing population.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

It’s also why diesel is used to power heavier machines, such as trucks, tractors and even ships, where the energy density of the fuel matters more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The monitoring systems use instruments anchored to the seafloor that continuously measure pressure, temperature, density, and ocean currents.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Larger AI models and the data-intensive process of inference, or when AI models make predictions based on learned patterns, however, “increasingly prioritize density, performance, endurance and supply certainty over the lowest absolute price,” Cassidy said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

What was the origin of these density fluctuations?

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Cwm Idwal Partnership Officer Rhys Wheldon-Roberts said monitoring was "really important because it allows us to graze in the right areas at the right densities and at the right time".

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

With characteristic densities near 10-6 Mpc-3, those objects would contribute substantially less to the observed signal.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Within the models examined by the researchers, seed densities around the 10-2 to 10-1 Mpc-3 range would begin generating more gravitational wave background than observations allow.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

In dwarf galaxies, the process creates dark matter cores with relatively low central densities, matching recent observations of galaxy clustering.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

Where population densities are high, as in regions occupied by states or chiefdoms, the defeated still have nowhere to flee, but the victors now have two options for exploiting them while leaving them alive.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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