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noun

intensity

the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)

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Six example sentences with intensity, each labelled with its topic.

  • Sound intensity falls quickly with distance, which is why the back row hears a different concert from the front.

    Music

  • A light meter reports the intensity reaching the sensor, and the camera turns that number into a shutter speed.

    Photography

  • Radiotherapy machines vary the beam intensity across the target so healthy tissue nearby receives far less energy.

    Medicine

  • Light intensity drops with the square of the distance, so a lamp twice as far away delivers a quarter of the energy.

    Science

  • The phone dims its screen by cutting the backlight intensity, which is why the battery lasts hours longer at half brightness.

    Technology

  • Solar intensity at the desert site peaks near noon, and the panels deliver most of their daily energy in four hours.

    Environment

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