| 单词 | intensity |
| 释义 | intensity (once / 434 pages) 1n 2n The way he stared deep into her eyes was making her uncomfortable. For a first date, this was too much intensity. Intensity is the degree, volume, or magnitude of a thing, such as fire, emotion, weather, work, or passion. Intensity is a word sometimes associated with passion, fire, and violence. It's used when discussing the level of such things as a love affair or, perhaps, a flame. For example, the intensity of the relationship between Bergman and Bogart in Casablanca was very high. Likewise, meteorologists measure the intensity of tornados on the Fujita Scale. Some things are meant to show intensity, such as performance by a great musician. Other things, such as, say, a blanket...not so much. WORD FAMILYintensity: intensities+/intense: intensely, intenser, intensest, intensity, intensively USAGE EXAMPLESThe soleus muscles are deep postural muscles and so require training of long duration and low intensity. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) The first 25 games or so are ruled by the passion and intensity of a nascent season. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) At different growth stages, the plants require light in different intensities, and algorithms controlling the L.E.D. arrays adjust for that. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n high level or degree; the property of being intense Syn|Hypo|Hyper intensiveness force, forcefulness, strength physical energy or intensity badness, severeness, severityused of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather emphasis, vehemenceintensity or forcefulness of expression topthe greatest possible intensity ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildnessthe property of being wild or turbulent bruntmain force of a blow etc impulse, momentuman impelling force or strength energy, vigor, vigour, zipforceful exertion foulness, raininess(of weather) the badness of the weather distressfulness, seriousnessthe quality of arousing fear or distress overemphasistoo much emphasis savageness, savagerythe property of being untamed and ferocious degree, grade, level a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality 2n chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue 2Syn|Hyper chroma, saturation, vividness color property an attribute of color 1n the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation) he adjusted the intensity of the sound Syn|Hypo|Hyper intensity level, strength radio brightness the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope threshold levelthe intensity level that is just barely perceptible field intensity, field strengththe 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 intensityluminous intensity measured in candelas acoustic power, sound pressure levelthe physical intensity of sound half-intensityhalf the maximum intensity magnetic field strength, magnetic flux density, magnetic induction, magnetic intensitythe amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow magnitude the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small) 2n the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper loudness, volume softness a sound property that is free from loudness or stridency crescendo (music) a gradual increase in loudness forte, fortissimo(music) loud swella crescendo followed by a decrescendo sound property an attribute of sound |
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