densitize

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verb

To make more dense.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

verbdensitize (third-person singular simple present densitizes, present participle densitizing, simple past and past participle densitized)

present singular third person densitizes · participle present densitizing · participle past densitized · past densitized

  1. uncommonTo make more dense.

    Fortunately, the hyperbolicity of the system can be changed by densitizing the lapse and adding constraints to the evolution equations. We densitize the lapse by writing: [...], where [...x] is the densitization parameter, [...]

    2004, Nicolae Tarfulea, Constraint Preserving Boundary Conditions for Hyperbolic Formulations of Einstein's Equations
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    Just as is done in the NOR system, the standard KST formulation uses a fixed densitized lapse of the form [...]. The reason for this is that by densitizing the lapse we are transforming derivatives of ai into derivatives of dimm.

    2008, Miguel Alcubierre, Introduction to 3+1 Numerical Relativity, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 181

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