density

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.

   “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. isim 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.

   “The number of particles per unit volume of a specified volume can be considered to be the particle density for the specified volume.”

3. isim 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.
4. isim Stupidity.

   “There's only so much density that pedagogy can penetrate.”