intensity
/ɪnˈtɛnsɪti/ sustantivo C1En español: intensidad, intensión
- The quality of being intense.
- The degree of strength.
- Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.
- Any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
- Synonym of radiance.
- 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.
Plural intensities
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Her bulky figure in a shawl and skirt might have been comic were it not for the intensity of feeling upon her face.
By a chance, which added yet more to the intensity of the darkness, the moon, which was on the wane, did not rise until eleven o’clock, and the streets which the young man traversed were plunged in the deepest obscurity.
Yet, in spite of his shabby and even absurd appearance, his voice had a sharp crackle, and his manner a quick intensity which commanded attention.
My friend was standing with an expression of strained intensity upon his face, staring at the railway metals where they curved out of the tunnel.
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