Intensity
[ɪn'tensɪtɪ] or [ɪn'tɛnsəti]
Definition
(noun.) high level or degree; the property of being intense.
(noun.) 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'.
Typist: Sonia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
(n.) The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The degree or depth of shade in a picture.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Intenseness, closeness, strictness, severity.[2]. Excess, vehemence, extremity, violence, high degree, extreme degree.[3]. Vigor, strength, power, activity, force, energy.[4]. Ardor, earnestness, vehemence.
Typist: Waldo
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Tension, force, concentration, strain, attention, eagerness, ardor, energy
ANT:Laxity, debility, relaxation, languor, indifference, coolness, hebetude,diminution
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Examples
- Are you to be happy, while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- These cries redoubled in intensity as the stranger approached her bed; when he took her up, Let alone! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The size of their following, the intensity of their demands are a fair index of what the statesman must think about. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One light-measuring scale depends upon the law that the intensity of illumination decreases with the square of the distance of the object from the light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Just then the firing doubled in intensity and in it was the heavy bumping of the hand grenades. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was of a sickly color, and his thin, sandy hair seemed to bristle up with the intensity of his emotion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The facts which are cited in support of the alleged pure egoism of children really show the intensity and directness with which they go to their mark. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Left to myself, I strove with painful intensity to divine the motive of his request and foresee the events of the coming day. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She was weary, oh so weary of Gerald's gripped intensity of physical motion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But the intensity of the vibrations diminishes very rapidly with the distance; so that even with the aid of speaking-tubes and trumpets it is impossible to exceed somewhat narrow limits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was conscious of nothing but a painful intensity of all familiar perceptions. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The intensity of the light was ascertained to be equal to that of 301,400 mould candles of six to the pound, whilst the light of the Breakwater Lighthouse was equal to only 150 candles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- An instrument called a cyanometer, meaning measurer of blue, is used for ascertaining the intensity of color in the sky. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The narrow geographical limits of these Greek states added to the intensity of their feeling. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I never, he declared with intensity, was more nearly frozen than once, in April, in the train between Calais and Paris. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The photograph is true as far as position, form, and expression are concerned, but the actual intensities are just reversed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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