Intensity vs Intension - What's the difference?
intensity | intension |
the quality of being intense
the degree of strength
(physics) time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance
(optics) can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance
(astronomy) syn. radiance
(geology) 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.
intensity or the act of becoming intense .
* Francis Bacon
(logic, semantics) Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted to actual instances in the real world to which the term applies.
* Sir W. Hamilton
(dated) A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.
As nouns the difference between intensity and intension
is that intensity is the quality of being intense while intension is intensity or the act of becoming intense .intensity
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Noun
(intensities)intension
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(wikipedia intension)Noun
(en noun)- Sounds likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind.
- This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.
- the intension of a musical string