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noun, plural in·ten·si·ties.
1.
the quality or condition of being intense.
2.
great energy, strength, concentration, vehemence, etc., as of activity, thought, or feeling: He went at the job with great intensity.
3.
a high or extreme degree, as of cold or heat.
4.
the degree or extent to which something is intense.
5.
EXPANDa high degree of emotional excitement; depth of feeling: The poem lacked intensity and left me unmoved.
6.
the strength or sharpness of a color due especially to its degree of freedom from admixture with its complementary color.
7.
Physics. magnitude, as of energy or a force per unit of area, volume, time, etc.
8.
COLLAPSESpeech.
a.
the correlate of physical energy and the degree of loudness of a speech sound.
b.
the relative carrying power of vocal utterance.
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| the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide |
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| intensity (ɪnˈtɛnsɪtɪ) | |
| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | the state or quality of being intense |
| 2. | extreme force, degree, or amount |
| 3. | physics |
| a. radiant intensity See luminous intensity a measure of field strength or of the energy transmitted by radiation | |
| b. I (of sound in a specified direction) the average rate of flow of sound energy, usually in watts, for one period through unit area at right angles to the specified direction | |
| 4. | geology Mercalli scale See Richter scale Also called: earthquake intensity a measure of the size of an earthquake based on observation of the effects of the shock at the earth's surface. Specified on the Mercalli scale |
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