In a sentence
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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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
- Science Vocabulary List
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