"close-set" meaning in English

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      "form": "most close-set",
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      "form": "close set",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "1856 Catalogue of apodal fish: in the collection of the British Museum\nFore half of the mandible armed by two rows of teeth ; the outer row consisting of 10 or 11 close-set low teeth, having compressed but not pointed tips."
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          "ref": "1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 165:",
          "text": "But the feature of them that made the most startling impression upon their prisoner was their white skins—neither in color nor feature was there a trace of the negroid about them. Yet, with their receding foreheads, wicked little close-set eyes, and yellow fangs, they were far from prepossessing in appearance.",
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          "text": "2005 Marc Ponomareff - the House of the Dead\nAdmittedly it consisted of only two pages of foolscap; but the lines, to my favor, were executed with a fine hand, resulting in close-set characters . . ."
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        "set close together"
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          "close",
          "close"
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          "together",
          "together"
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        {
          "code": "nb",
          "english": "eyes",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "lang_code": "nb",
          "sense": "set close together",
          "translation": "eyes",
          "word": "tettsittende"
        }
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  "word": "close-set"
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    {
      "form": "more close-set",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most close-set",
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        "superlative"
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    {
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          "text": "1856 Catalogue of apodal fish: in the collection of the British Museum\nFore half of the mandible armed by two rows of teeth ; the outer row consisting of 10 or 11 close-set low teeth, having compressed but not pointed tips."
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          "together",
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      "english": "eyes",
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      "lang_code": "nb",
      "sense": "set close together",
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      "word": "tettsittende"
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