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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intensity \In*ten"si*ty\, n. [LL. intensitas: cf. F. intensit['e]. See Intense.]
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The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
If you would deepen the intensity of light, you must be content to bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it.
--F. W. Robertson. (Physics) The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced.
(Mech.) 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.
(Photog.) The degree or depth of color or shade in a picture.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
formed in English 1660s from intense + -ity. Earlier was intenseness (1610s). Sense of "extreme depth of feeling" first recorded 1830.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the quality of being intense 2 the degree of strength 3 (context physics English) time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance 4 (context optics English) can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance 5 (context astronomy English) syn. radiance 6 (context geology English) 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.
WordNet
n. 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" [syn: strength, intensity level]
high level or degree; the property of being intense [syn: intensiveness]
the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume" [syn: volume, loudness] [ant: softness]
chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vividness of hue [syn: saturation, chroma, vividness]
Wikipedia
In physics, intensity is the power transferred per unit area, where the area is an imagined surface that is perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the energy. In the SI system, it has units watts per square metre (W/m). It is used most frequently with waves (e.g. sound or light), in which case the average power transfer over one period of the wave is used. Intensity can be applied to other circumstances where energy is transferred. For example, one could calculate the intensity of the kinetic energy carried by drops of water from a garden sprinkler.
The word "intensity" as used here is not synonymous with "strength", "amplitude", "magnitude", or "level", as it sometimes is in colloquial speech.
Intensity can be found by taking the energy density (energy per unit volume) at a point in space and multiplying it by the velocity at which the energy is moving. The resulting vector has the units of power divided by area (i.e., surface power density).
Intensity may refer to:
Intensity is a 1997 made-for-TV mini-series based on the novel of the same name by Dean Koontz, starring John C. McGinley, Molly Parker, Piper Laurie, and Tori Paul. It originally aired in the United States on the Fox Network.
Intensity is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1995.
Intensity is a 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Dolo Coker, Jimmy Bond and Frank Butler. The album was released in 1963.
The sleeve notes (by Lester Koenig) quote Richard Hadlock, jazz editor of the San Francisco Examiner, who writes:
"As this and his last Contemporary release Smack Up!, demonstrate, Art was well on his way toward a new kind of playing freedom in 1960. He had, partly through the examples of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, begun to set aside his few remaining inhibitions and reach out for still more direct contact with his emotions... A musician friend told me recently that sometimes Pepper's playing 'sounds like a man crying — it just tears you up.' I agree."Intensity is an album by American saxophonist and composer John Klemmer released on the Impulse! label.
Intensity is an album by organist Charles Earland which was recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label.
In the field of heat transfer, intensity of radiation I is a measure of the distribution of radiant heat flux per unit area and solid angle, in a particular direction, defined according to
dq = I dω cosθ dA
where
- dA is the infinitesimal source area
- dq is the outgoing heat transfer from the area dA
- dω is the solid angle subtended by the infinitesimal 'target' (or 'aperture') area dA
- θ is the angle between the source area normal vector and the line-of-sight between the source and the target areas.
Typical units of intensity are W·m·sr.
Intensity can sometimes be called radiance, especially in other fields of study.
The emissive power of a surface can be determined by integrating the intensity of emitted radiation over a hemisphere surrounding the surface:
q = ∫∫Icosθsinθdθdϕ
For diffuse emitters, the emitted radiation intensity is the same in all directions, with the result that
E = πI
The factor π (which really should have the units of steradians) is a result of the fact that intensity is defined to exclude the effect of reduced view factor at large values θ; note that the solid angle corresponding to a hemisphere is equal to 2π steradians.
Spectral intensity I is the corresponding spectral measurement of intensity; in other words, the intensity as a function of wavelength.
Usage examples of "intensity".
I found that with each mixture there was a time of exposure which would produce the deepest blue, that with over-exposure the blue gradually turned gray, and that if a curve should be plotted, the abscissas of which should represent the time of exposure, and the ordinates of which should represent the intensity of the blue the curves drawn would have approximately an elliptical form, so that if one knew the exact time of exposure which would give the best result with any mixture, one might deviate two or three minutes either way from that time without producing a noticeable result.
The intensity of the response to a given beat reflects the current dominance of the beat period whose corresponding neurons are activated by that beat.
When in a meeting with Lord Carmarthen, Adams summoned all his old intensity to warn that the attitude of the British, if continued, would inevitably strengthen commercial ties between the United States and France, it had no effect whatever.
Can it be wondered at that South Africa has been in a ferment ever since, and that the British Africander has yearned with an intensity of feeling unknown in England for the hour of revenge?
The anchorpeople leaned into the cameras with the usual end-of-the-world intensity, but had nothing new to say.
How could she do anything but feel with his intensity poured on her, her mouth?
Sir Robert arrived at Appleton a day late, forced to shelter at Denholm overnight because of the intensity of the storm.
At forty-nine years of age, General Kenneth Draper-he preferred people to address him as general and not as undersecretary-had a pink-and-white face, thick backswept silver hair, thin lips curving down at the ends, and a pair of light gray eyes, which stared back at the defense secretary with matching intensity.
The night before Badawi had suspected something was up because of the intensity of the conversation between Sarn and Giff.
Tom was the oldest, a dark-haired banty rooster with a look of sleepy indifference that masked his intensity.
In frustration, Odo set the tricorder to register any energy phenomenon, and the small display screen suddenly turned bright red as all intensity bars filled their scales.
Each of the 4 beats in a bar has an implicit intensity: beat 1 is the strongest, beat 3 is the next strongest and beats 2 and 4 are the weakest and similar to each other.
However, given that the frequency of regular beats is much lower than the frequency that neurons can fire at, it may not be absolutely necessary for neurons representing beats to fire at the exact millisecond the beat occurs: it may, for example, be sufficient to represent a beat by a short burst of firings, in which case the number of firings in the burst represents the perceived intensity of the beat.
Brad noted that Rimov was staring at the intensity slide visible on the breechblock of his sheathed weapon.
With great intensity he watched the three or four older bulls that commanded the cows, and especially he kept his eye on Rufous.