tätaste

Tätaste is a Swedish word that functions as the superlative form of tät, meaning dense or tightly packed. It denotes the greatest degree of density among a group of items or areas. The term is used in geography, urban planning, ecology, and statistics to describe the most crowded or compact instances within a given context.

In practice, tätaste is used to refer to the most densely populated or most tightly arranged places or features. For example, the tätaste neighborhood would be the area with the highest population density in a city; in forestry, tätaste stands describe the most crowded arrangements of trees. It is typically expressed with numerical density measures such as population density (people per square kilometer) or stand density in forests.

Origin and related terms: tät means dense, and tätaste is its superlative form. The concept is closely related to täthet (density) and tätort (urban area). The exact form and usage can vary by dialect and style, but all generally convey the idea of maximal density within a defined set.

See also: population density, urban density, forest stand density, tätort, täthet.