density

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈden.sɪ.ti/, X-SAMPA: /"den.sI.ti/,

Noun

density (plural densities)

1. ​(physics) A measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume.
   • 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184: 

     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 ratio of one quantity to that of another quantity.

   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 event will occur, as a function of some observed variable.

Derived terms

• charge density
• energy density

• electron density
• freight density

Translations

physics: amount of matter contained by a given volume

• Arabic: كثافة (ar) (kaṯāfa) f
• Bulgarian: плътност (bg) (plǎ̀tnost) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密度 (cmn) (mìdù)

• Czech: hustota (cs) f
• Dutch: dichtheid (nl) f
• Finnish: tiheys (fi), ominaispaino (fi)
• French: densité (fr) f
• German: Dichte (de) f, Massendichte (de) f
• Greek: πυκνότητα (el) (pyknótita) f
• Hungarian: sűrűség (hu)

• Italian: densità (it) f
• Japanese: 密度 (ja) (みつど, mitsudo)
• Malay: ketumpatan (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: massetetthet (nb) m and f, densitet (nb) m

  Nynorsk: massetettleik (nn) m, densitet (nn) m

• Polish: gęstość (pl) f
• Romanian: densitate (ro) f
• Russian: плотность (ru) (plótnostʹ) f, густота (ru) (gustotá) f
• Swedish: täthet (sv), massvolym (sv) c, densitet (sv) c
• Telugu: సాంద్రత (te) (saandratha)

number of particles or other quantity contained by a given volume

• Bulgarian: плътност (bg) (plǎ̀tnost) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濃度 (cmn), 浓度 (cmn) (nóngdù)

• Finnish: tiheys (fi)
• German: Dichte (de) f
• Italian: densità (it) f
• Japanese: 濃度 (ja) (のうど, nōdo)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tetthet (nb) m and f

  Nynorsk: tettleik (nn) m

• Polish: gęstość (pl) f
• Romanian: densitate (ro) f
• Russian: плотность (ru) (plótnostʹ) f, густота (ru) (gustotá) f
• Swedish: täthet (sv)

probability

• Dutch: waarschijnlijkheid (nl) f
• German: Wahrscheinlichkeit (de) f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sannsynlighetstetthet (nb) m and f

  Nynorsk: sannsynstettleik (nn) m

• Russian: вероятность (ru) (verojátnostʹ) f

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Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: צפיפות (tzfifut) f

• Romanian: densitate f
• Slovene: gostota f
• Turkish: yoğunluk

Anagrams

• destiny, Destiny