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INTENSITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
Synonyms:
chroma; intensity; saturation; vividness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("intensity" is a kind of...):
color property (an attribute of color)
Holonyms ("intensity" is a substance of...):
chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)
Derivation:
intense ((of color) having the highest saturation)
intensify (make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
Example:
the kids played their music at full volume
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("intensity" is a kind of...):
sound property (an attribute of sound)
Attribute:
loud (characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity)
soft ((of sound) relatively low in volume)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intensity"):
crescendo ((music) a gradual increase in loudness)
Sense 3
Meaning:
High level or degree; the property of being intense
Synonyms:
intensity; intensiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("intensity" is a kind of...):
degree; grade; level (a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intensity"):
force; forcefulness; strength (physical energy or intensity)
badness; severeness; severity (used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather)
emphasis; vehemence (intensity or forcefulness of expression)
top (the greatest possible intensity)
ferocity; fierceness; furiousness; fury; vehemence; violence; wildness (the property of being wild or turbulent)
Derivation:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
intensify (become more intense)
intensify (make more intense, stronger, or more marked)
intensify (increase in extent or intensity)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)
Example:
they measured the station's signal strength
Synonyms:
intensity; intensity level; strength
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("intensity" is a kind of...):
magnitude (the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intensity"):
radio brightness (the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope)
threshold level (the intensity level that is just barely perceptible)
field intensity; field strength (the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field)
candlepower; light intensity (luminous intensity measured in candelas)
acoustic power; sound pressure level (the physical intensity of sound)
half-intensity (half the maximum intensity)
Context examples:
Storms of that intensity have only reached the region three times since the 1600s.
(Monster hurricanes struck U.S. Northeast during prehistoric periods of ocean warming, NSF)
They were instructed to reduce their food intake by 500 to 1000 calories a day, and to gradually increase moderate-intensity physical activity to 250 minutes a week.
(Strategies successfully reduce weight gain in young adults, NIH)
Rosetta is the first spacecraft to witness at close proximity how a comet changes as it is subjected to the increasing intensity of the sun's radiation.
(Final Descent Image from Rosetta Spacecraft, NASA)
Become less in amount or intensity.
(Abate, NCI Thesaurus)
A logarithmic ratio unit (base-10 logarithms) used to express relative magnitude of a physical quantity (usually power or intensity) in comparison with a specified or implied reference level.
(Bel, NCI Thesaurus)
A semi-quantitative assessment of the intensity of the wheal and flare reaction.
(Allergen Skin Response Intensity, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A two-sided card that measures pain intensity and the patient's mood on one side, and has a modified version of the Tursky Pain Description Scale on the other.
(Memorial Pain Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
A condition in which a person loses the ability to hear due to exposure to high intensity sound.
(Noise Induced Hearing Loss, NCI Thesaurus)
Pain Intensity (PI v1) Minimum pain intensity for various time periods of evaluation.
(PI - Minimum Pain Intensity For Various Time Periods of Evaluation, NCI Thesaurus)
Pain Intensity (PI v1) Maximum pain intensity for various time periods of evaluation.
(PI - Maximum Pain Intensity For Various Time Periods of Evaluation, NCI Thesaurus)
