Definition of "superdense" [superdense]

• Of or relating to an extreme condition in which matter is forced into nonclassical states, as when electrons are forced into protons, leaving only neutrons, or the matter is compressed beyond this point into a singularity. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "An exploding population will lead, for many, to "superdense" living of the sort experienced in the poorer tenements of Naples or Marseille."
• "Elsewhere in the universe, people collect children from their parents with promises of virtual heaven, then ship them off via a superdense datalink as bodiless intelligences, to spin code in the software farms of space."
• "When the nuclear fusion reactions at the cores of very massive stars no longer can provide the energy needed to hold the core up against the weight of the rest of the star, the core collapses catastrophically into a superdense neutron star or black hole."