Definition of intensity

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Intensity (n.) The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced..

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Rise :: Rise (v.) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.
Intenseness :: Intenseness (n.) The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought..
Remission :: Remission (n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
Lucimeter :: Lucimeter (n.) an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.
Intensity :: Intensity (n.) 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..
Galvanometer :: Galvanometer (n.) An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle..
Depth :: Depth (n.) Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color..
Intensity :: Intensity (n.) The degree or depth of shade in a picture.
Cointense :: Cointense (a.) Equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense..
Photometer :: Photometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power..
Phonometer :: Phonometer (n.) An instrument for measuring sounds, as to their intensity, or the frequency of the vibrations..
Pain :: Pain (n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him..
Uniformitarian :: Uniformitarian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes..
Pyroscope :: Pyroscope (n.) An instrument for measuring the intensity of heat radiating from a fire, or the cooling influence of bodies. It is a differential thermometer, having one bulb coated with gold or silver leaf..
Electrometer :: Electrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity; also, sometimes, and less properly, applied to an instrument which indicates the presence of electricity (usually called an electroscope)..
Strength :: Strength (n.) Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids..
Myograph :: Myograph (n.) An instrument for determining and recording the different phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction..
Attenuation :: Attenuation (n.) The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus..
Photometry :: Photometry (n.) That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.
Rheometer :: Rheometer (n.) An instrument for measuring currents, especially the force or intensity of electrical currents; a galvanometer..
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