intensity

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The last time Melbourne had a heatwave of this intensity was a century ago when it suffered through five days of stultifying heat with temperatures in the 40s in January 1908.

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  1. noun Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force.
  2. noun Physics The amount or degree of strength of electricity, light, heat, or sound per unit area or volume.
  3. noun The strength of a color, especially the degree to which it lacks its complementary color.
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  • It went on until the intensity was almost too much to bear, and then it subsided, leaving her spent. —  CallMeWicked
  • He thus gets into a somewhat unreal tragedy, a passionate intensity which is otherwise wholly inexplicable. —  The Man Shakespeare
  • Sometimes KG can be an ass, but lots of times his intensity is a good thing. —  FanHouse
  • A significant SES supporting a higher intensity was also observed for instrumental ADL and walking speed, whereas no significant SES was found for dexterity. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • As long as Mets-Phillies races keep going down to the line in the NL East, the intensity will be there and the arrows will be slung from Philadelphia up to the Big Apple and back.
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  1. = French intensité = Spanish intensidad = Portuguese intensidade = Italian intensità, from Latin as if *intensita(t-)s, from intensus, tight: see intense.
 

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