Definition of Densify

1. Verb. (transitive) To make dense. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To become dense. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Densify

1. to make denser [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES] - See also: denser

Lexicographical Neighbors of Densify

dense bodies
dense liver
dense metaphyseal bands
dense spleen
densely
denseness
densenesses
denser
densest
densification
densifications
densified
densifier
densifiers
densifies
densify (current term)
densifying
densimeter
densimeters
densimetry
densities
densitized
densitometer
densitometers
densitometric
densitometries
densitometry
density
density-dependent
density dependence

Literary usage of Densify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. NEHRP Commentary on the Gidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildingsedited by Eugene Zeller edited by Eugene Zeller (2000)
"Loose cohesionless soils above the water table will also tend to densify during the period of earthquake ground shaking, ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"... makes the following perfervid statement: "This attitude would densify reason, make a farce of the courtroom, and establish a principle that never was ..."

3. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"... which tends to refine, densify, and toughen the grain of the steel; it is then re-heated, and placed under powerful rollers, and flattened out to the ..."

4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1851)
"But why all this anxiety to concentrate and densify our population ?—is the object at which we are aiming, the power of the government, and the luxury of ..."

5. Man and His Bodies by Annie Wood Besant (1896)
"... if not, such a visitor might slightly densify his vehicle by drawing into it from the surrounding atmosphere particles of physical matter, ..."

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