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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to an extreme condition in which matter is forced into nonclassical states, as when gravity in a collapsing star crushes electrons and protons together to form neutrons.
  • adjective Of or relating to a quantum computer-coding technique in which two qubits of information are transmitted using one qubit by means of quantum entanglement.

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  • adjective of quantum coding of information Having an information density of two classical bits per qubit, made possible by a shared entanglement state between sender and recipient.
  • adjective of matter More dense than ordinary matter.

Etymologies

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From super- +‎ dense.

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Examples

  • An exploding population will lead, for many, to "superdense" living of the sort experienced in the poorer tenements of Naples or Marseille.

    Turned Out Nice: How the British Isles Will Change as the World Heats Up by Marek Kohn 2010

  • 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.

    In Brief: Science Fiction Tom Shippey 2011

  • 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.

    In Brief: Science Fiction Tom Shippey 2011

  • 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.

    Supernova or GRB? Radio Observations Allow Astronomers to Find Unusual Object | Universe Today 2010

  • Or they merge into one superdense ball of politics and litigation — a singularity of dangerous dimensions.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Last Gasp for San Diego Seals? 2009

  • The big bang required that superdense little something.

    Early Buzz: The First Review of Bruno | /Film 2009

  • The fundamental theory is that there was a superdense little something that exploded and released energy and matter that formed the universe.

    Early Buzz: The First Review of Bruno | /Film 2009

  • I've quoted to save basically rewriting but that covers my idea and also the fact that it of course proves nothing but that many do hold the belief that The Big Bang was the first cause And I'm counting the superdense something as the start.

    Early Buzz: The First Review of Bruno | /Film 2009

  • The lab's latest breakthrough, a superdense display screen, will be marketed by a subsidiary called dpiX.

    Pass The Pixels 2008

  • You're the only one with the nanite mindscan system required to translate the casual conversational English we seem to be communicating in into the superdense ultramegagigagrams of I-Chingese that we're actually communicating in.

    AI - Mark 3 Hal Duncan 2006

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