intensity
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From intense + -ity. Cf. also Medieval Latin intensitas.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɛnsɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]intensity (countable and uncountable, plural intensities)
- The quality of being intense.
- The degree of strength.
- 1980, Ann Jefferson, “[Character and the age of suspicion] Unforgettable figures: Portrait d’un inconnu and Le voyeur”, in The Nouveau Roman and the Poetics of Fiction, Cambridge, Cambs: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 66:
- The painting’s dislocated, unformed features are the very opposite of the hard, painted dolls of the other portrait, and, where they are dead and ready to topple, this unknown man’s eyes are full of intensity and life.
- 2011, Peter A. Thomas, “General Forest Ecological Processes: Chapter 10 from Trees and Forests, a Color Guide”, in Arnoldia, volume 68, number 3, Boston, MA: Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, page 22:
- Fagus sylvatica (European beech) and Acer saccharum (sugar maple, from North America) are very tolerant of deep shade, while Betula spp. (birches) and Populus spp. (poplars) grow best under high light intensities.
- (physics) Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.
- (optics) Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
- (astronomy) Synonym of radiance.
- (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.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]quality of being intense
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geology: the severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings
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