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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ratio of the mass of a solid or liquid to the mass of an equal volume of distilled water at 4°C (39°F) or of a gas to an equal volume of air or hydrogen under prescribed conditions of temperature and pressure.
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- noun physics The
ratio of themass of asubstance to that of anequal volume ofwater at 4°C (or to some otherreference substance)
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- noun the density of a substance relative to the density of water
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