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{
"term": "density",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the quality of being dense; the degree to which something is dense",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The population density in this city is very high."
},
{
"text": "low-density forest"
},
{
"text": "an average density of 2.4 people per hectare"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["high", "low", "average"],
"verb + density": ["calculate", "determine", "estimate"],
"density + verb": ["change", "vary", "increase"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "how thick a solid, liquid or gas is, measured by its mass per unit of volume",
"labels": "(physics)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the density of a gas"
},
{
"text": "similar stars of the same mass and density"
},
{
"text": "Vitamin D deficiency causes a loss of bone density."
}
],
"topics": ["Physics and chemistry"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["high", "low", "average"],
"verb + density": ["calculate", "determine", "estimate"],
"density + verb": ["change", "vary", "increase"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the amount of space available on a disk for recording data",
"labels": "(computing)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdensəti/",
"audio": "de/density/density__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdensəti/",
"audio": "de/density/density__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from French densité or Latin densitas, from densus ‘dense’."
}