1. Noun
The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
2. Noun
The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced.
3. Noun
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. Noun
The degree or depth of shade in a picture.
5. 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"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
6. Noun
chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
Vocabulary classified under Research methods
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