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Definition of Intensity

1. Noun. The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation). "They measured the station's signal strength"

2. Noun. High level or degree; the property of being intense.

3. Noun. The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction). "The kids played their music at full volume"

4. Noun. Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue.

Definition of Intensity

1. n. The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.

Definition of Intensity

1. Noun. the quality of being intense ¹

2. Noun. the degree of strength ¹

3. Noun. (physics) time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance ¹

4. Noun. (optics) can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance ¹

5. Noun. (astronomy) syn. radiance ¹

6. Noun. (geology) The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings. The value depends on the distance from the epicentre, and is not to be confused with the magnitude. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Intensity

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Medical Definition of Intensity

1. The condition or quality of being intense, a high degree of tension, activity or energy. Origin: L. Intensus = intense, tendere = to stretch This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intensity

intensifier intensifiers intensifies intensify intensifying intensifying screen intension intensional intensional definition intensional logic

intensionality intensionally intensions intensities intensitive intensity (current term) intensity level intensity of sound intensive intensive-care

intensive care intensive care unit intensive care units intensive management intensive properties intensive psychotherapy intensively intensiveness intensivenesses intensives

Literary usage of Intensity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"From the difference in the distances of the two ends of the trough from the source of the light the authors calculate that the difference in the intensity ..."

2. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1881)
"The Resultant electric intensity at any point is the force which would be exerted ... Hence the quantity R is also called the Electromotive intensity at the ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"With reference to intensity 357 (b) Varying degrees of imaginal intensity 358 (a) Ascription of intensity to images 357 2. ..."

4. Smithsonian Physical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Frederick Eugene Fowle (1916)
"The sensibility is approximately proportional to the intensity over a wide range. The ratio of optical- to radiation-intensity increases more rapidly for ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"From the difference in the distances of the two ends of the trough from the source of the light the authors calculate that the difference in the intensity ..."

6. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1881)
"The Resultant electric intensity at any point is the force which would be exerted ... Hence the quantity R is also called the Electromotive intensity at the ..."

7. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"With reference to intensity 357 (b) Varying degrees of imaginal intensity 358 (a) Ascription of intensity to images 357 2. ..."

8. Smithsonian Physical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Frederick Eugene Fowle (1916)
"The sensibility is approximately proportional to the intensity over a wide range. The ratio of optical- to radiation-intensity increases more rapidly for ..."

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