noun “forest”
singular forest, plural forests
- a large area densely filled with trees
Sign up to see the translation of definitions and examples into any language.
We went hiking in the dense forest behind our house.
- a dense collection or large amount of something
She navigated through a forest of legal jargon to understand the contract.
- in graph theory, a collection of trees in a graph that contains no cycles
In our study of graph theory, we identified that the collection of trees, known as a forest, within graph G contains no cycles, ensuring each component is acyclic.