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Share This in·ten·si·ty Audio Help / ɪnˈtɛn / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ in-ten -si-tee ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun, plural -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. a 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 esp. to its degree of freedom from admixture with its complementary color.
7. Physics .
8. Speech . 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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pl. in·ten·si·ties
Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force.
Physics The amount or degree of strength of electricity, light, heat, or sound per unit area or volume.The strength of a color, especially the degree to which it lacks its complementary color.
See saturation .
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The act or process of saturating.
The condition of being saturated.
The condition of being full to or beyond satisfaction; satiety.
Physics A state of a ferromagnetic substance in which an increase in applied magnetic field strength does not produce an increase in magnetization.Chemistry The state of a compound or solution that is fully saturated.Meteorology A condition in which air at a specific temperature contains all the water vapor it can hold; 100 percent relative humidity.Vividness of hue; degree of difference from a gray of the same lightness or brightness. Also called intensity . See Table at color .
Intensive shelling or bombing of a military target to achieve total destruction.
The flooding of a market with all of a commodity that consumers can purchase.
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Share This intensity noun 1. the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation); "he adjusted the intensity of the sound"; "they measured the station's signal strength" 2. high level or degree; the property of being intense 3. the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume" [syn: volume ] [ant: softness ] 4. chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue [syn: saturation ]
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Share This inˈtensity noun
the quality of being intense
Example:
the intensity of the heat
Arabic: شِدَّه، كَثافَه Chinese (Simplified): 强度 Chinese (Traditional): 強度 Czech: intenzita Danish: intensitet Dutch: intensiteit Estonian: tugevus Finnish: voimakkuus French: intensité German: die Intensität Greek: ένταση, σφοδρότητα Hungarian: intenzitás Icelandic: mikill kraftur, *magn Indonesian: intensitas Italian: intensità
Japanese: 強烈さ Korean: 강렬함 Latvian: intensitāte Lithuanian: intensyvumas Norwegian: styrke, kraft, intensitet Polish: intensywność Portuguese (Brazil): intensidade Portuguese (Portugal): intensidade Romanian: intensitate Russian: интенсивность Slovak: sila, výkonnosť, intenzita Slovenian: jakost Spanish: intensidad Swedish: intensitet Turkish: şiddet, yoğunluk
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In*ten"si*ty\, n. [LL. intensitas: cf. F. intensit['e]. See
Intense .]
1. The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
If you would deepen the intensity of light, you must be content to bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it. --F. W. Robertson.
2. (Physics) The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced.
3. (Mech.) The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch.
4. (Photog.) The degree or depth of shade in a picture.
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