noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
capital
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But as accumulation accelerated, capital intensity increased.
emotional
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The physicality of sport, its speed and grace, along with the emotional intensity of victory and defeat are supremely visual.
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In these novels of great emotional intensity , sensibility and sentimentality lead to virtue.
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Her emotional intensity is experienced by the other characters as a tyranny from which they must escape if they are to survive.
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Others are alarmed by too much emotional intensity .
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An activated word might be defined as any word placed in a context such that it takes on emotional intensity .
great
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At its heart is a slow movement of great intensity and spellbinding simplicity, magically performed.
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In these novels of great emotional intensity , sensibility and sentimentality lead to virtue.
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The mass media, particularly the national mass media, pursue stories with great intensity for short periods only.
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The greater the fraction of atoms with that speed the greater the intensity of metal deposited at that place.
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At 07.30, the Allied artillery, which for the previous 65 minutes had been firing at its greatest intensity , lifted.
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Was it not too restrictive to preclude the possibility that forces of greater intensity had acted in the past?
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People were crowding round the displays, reading the posters with great intensity and, by and large, in silence.
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No sooner had she crossed a small bridge near the farm than the storm resumed with even greater intensity .
high
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Moral involvement designates a high intensity of positive involvement - the loyal party member or church parishioner, for example.
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The immediacy of these visionary experiences endows them with a high degree of intensity , but also renders them fleeting and transient.
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For instance, blackbirds will mob owls, producing a high intensity pinking call.
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That game had a high intensity from beginning to end and I was glad to be a part of it.
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The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases, so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity .
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A few cycles of high intensity exercise are needed to trigger the growth of bone.
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Are they necessary or would you recommend a new high intensity tube in its place?
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They include the high intensity services delivered to insured patients - especially, but not exclusively, patients aged over 65.
light
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The lower curve shows the light intensity at the centre of the receptive field as a sinusoidal grating drifts across it.
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The I-measure will of course increase with area and indeed linearly for uniform card subjects and for a given light intensity .
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Other requirements: Light: Medium intensity light .
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Our objective measures of light intensity would be discarded if they universally gave answers that contradicted our subjective experiences.
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The most basic eye change is connected with variations in light intensity .
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According to light intensity , regular brown to purple spots develop on the leaf tissue.
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However to simplify the apparatus the radiometer will not be used and the light intensity will be assumed approximately constant.
low
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Luminescence is rarely more than 1% efficient and thus of comparatively low intensity .
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Second, the actual difficulties encountered overseas appeared to be of a considerably lower order of intensity than had been feared.
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Minerals giving very low intensity emission, such as quartz grains, required many minutes or even hours of exposure with fast films.
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But stamina and muscle tissue need the opposite, many repetitions of rather low intensity .
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Due to its low intensity most investigators ignore it, but there are several important factors to consider.
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Calculative involvement refers to a low intensity of either negative or positive orientation towards the organization.
passionate
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He showed passionate intensity without any focus.
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The worst, as always, are informed of passionate intensity .
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Aye, I believe you have shown a peculiarly passionate intensity .
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity .
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The Tchaikovsky was decently played but it lacked the passionate intensity that the score asks for, if not demands.
■ NOUN
level
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The intensity level is different in the playoffs.
■ VERB
bring
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David is bringing the same intensity that drives her on the field to her recovery.
feel
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It was a mistake, and she gasped at the intensity of feeling the slight contact produced.
increase
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A tickling cough coming every few hours with increasing intensity .
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Start as softly as possible and gradually increase in intensity until most students indicate they can hear it.
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Begin increasing training intensity as soon as you can last the 20 minutes.
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Also, to be effective, exercise programs need to increase in intensity .
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The light was directly above him now, increasing in intensity and hurting his eyes.
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Mergers, cutting down, restructuring, and technological advances have increased the intensity of the winds of change.
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The step can be set at three different levels and each level increases the intensity of the work-out by percent.
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It would not only delay the pleasure, but increase the intensity of it.
measure
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Possible models are a power of the intensity or its exponential, where the radiometer is used to measure the intensity.
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However, what is actually measured is the intensity of the beam after it has passed through the flame.
reduce
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This may reduce the intensity of future depressions.
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They are still on the lookout, but they have definitely reduced the intensity and eagerness to recruit.
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Neutral density filters should then be interposed to reduce light intensity .
vary
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In reality any organization will be involved in a web of relationships, which vary in character and intensity according to the issue.
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These sympathy prosurvival engrams, which make up the ally computations, vary only in intensity from the standard prosurvival engram.
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These problems can vary in intensity from parents concerned about how to wean, to parents' neglecting and underfeeding their children.
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The therapy delivers hundreds of high-energy X-ray bursts of varying intensity , determined by a firing pattern calculated to disintegrate the tumor.
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It may vary in intensity and in duration.
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Both can to some degree be controlled and both vary in intensity or extent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Light intensity is very important for plants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Having ditched Belladonna, they produced an album burning with an intensity and fury rarely paralleled.
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It lacks light and shade, the conviction and theatrical intensity that drives words straight into people's hearts.
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Moreover, the intensity of a campaign may burn out those most involved in it.
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One reason must be the inevitable distancing of oneself from the intensity and nearness of the experience.
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She had set about it with a cool intensity that she applied to every job she undertook.
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The epicentre was near Bishops Castle in Shropshire, but the shaking was felt as far afield as the intensity 2 area.
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To experience fully the intensity of each moment must mean to experience its anguish as well as its bliss.
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What happens if we double the intensity of light falling upon 183 the surface, keeping the color unchanged?