intensifier
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səˌfaɪ noun
1.
a person or thing that intensifies.
2.
3.
a ram-operated device for increasing hydraulic pressure.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that intensifies |
| 2. | a word, esp an adjective or adverb, that has little semantic content of its own but that serves to intensify the meaning of the word or phrase that it modifies: awfully and up are intensifiers in the phrases awfully sorry and cluttered up |
| 3. | Compare reducer a substance, esp one containing silver or uranium, used to increase the density of a photographic film or plate |
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Intensifier
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an exclamation point. |
Example sentences
The state-of-the-art intensifier tube provides the brightest image possible with two-power magnification.
The image intensifier calibration system has been fixed and is working correctly.
For each bunch a video picture is taken by gating the image intensifier only for that bunch.
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