intensity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the amount of energy transmitted, as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation

   They adjusted the intensity of the sound.

2. 2
   noun

   The degree of strength.

   The painting’s dislocated, unformed features are the very opposite of the hard, painted dolls of the other portrait, and, where they are dead and ready to topple, this unknown man’s eyes are full of intensity and life.

3. 3
   noun

   chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue

4. 4
   noun

   the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)

5. 5
   noun

   high level or degree

6. 6
   noun

   The quality of being intense.

7. 7
   noun

   Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.

8. 8
   noun

   Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.

Etymology

From intense + -ity. Cf. also Medieval Latin intensitas.