CROWDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crowding mean? 

• CROWDING (noun)
  The noun CROWDING has 1 sense:

1. a situation in which people or things are crowded together

  Familiarity information: CROWDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROWDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A situation in which people or things are crowded together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

he didn't like the crowding on the beach

Hypernyms ("crowding" is a kind of...):

situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crowding"):

congestion; over-crowding (excessive crowding)

Derivation:

crowd (to gather together in large numbers)

crowd (cause to herd, drive, or crowd together)

crowd (fill or occupy to the point of overflowing)

 Context examples 

This lesion shows moderate or marked architectural distortion with glandular crowding and prominent cellular atypia.

(High Grade Glandular Intraepithelial Neoplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

"No crowding," said Mr. Rochester: "take the drawings from my hand as I finish with them; but don't push your faces up to mine."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These lesions must have some nuclear abnormalities including some loss of polarity, nuclear crowding, enlarged nuclei, pseudo-stratification and hyperchromatism.

(Mouse Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia-2, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A non-invasive pancreatic intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm characterized by the presence of neoplastic epithelial cells that exhibit nuclear stratification, loss of polarity, and crowding.

(Pancreatic Intraductal Papillary-Mucinous Neoplasm with Intermediate Grade Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

“The King of Spain!” cried the companions, crowding round in amazement.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Moderate cytological atypia is present with some loss of nuclear polarity, nuclear crowding or hyperchromatism.

(Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia-2, NCI Thesaurus)

During the process, they added boron atoms, which have the effect of crowding out other impurities that could spoil the neutral charge.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A high grade intraepithelial neoplasia in which there is marked architectural distortion and crowding of the glands, associated with severe cellular atypia.

(Grade III Glandular Intraepithelial Neoplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fears crowding upon me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The researchers used techniques from evolutionary genetics and molecular biology to identify genes that determine the degree to which aphids respond to crowding.

(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)