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  • noun Plural form of intensity.

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Examples

  • The problem with the air conditioning system is that it works really hard and the storm intensities from the cold air mass increase.

    Climate Change--a Range of Views, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Mountain bikes essentially are designed to do what their name suggests and climb mountains but they do come in a variety of intensities from the more gentle version or “cross” bike to the full on professional version, which really is only for mountains or steep off road climbs and will not be a very good choice for cycling on the roads, so you should be very careful before buying your mountain bike and make sure you know what you want it for.

    Gentle Version | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • It is at the critical locus of productive desire that this writing opens itself up to an alternative ‘libidinal’ economy which operates across the precarious boundaries of the symbolic and the biological and has its basis in intensities.

    Quick Review 06 (Even More Anagrams from Canada) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Reporters with expression intensities of less than 10% of the array median were removed from the dataset.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vivien Béziat et al. 2010

  • Your idea sounds very much like Deleuze's conception of "intensities," but what you are saying sounds much more "literal."

    Body is Vibration Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • This "reflection upon itself" part could lead to a theory of subjectivity, that, like Deleuze's "intensities," would manifest, exponentially, more concentrated wave interaction i.e. in itself, in the body; of the body itself, leading to thought?

    Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Your idea sounds very much like Deleuze's conception of "intensities," but what you are saying sounds much more "literal."

    Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • This "reflection upon itself" part could lead to a theory of subjectivity, that, like Deleuze's "intensities," would manifest, exponentially, more concentrated wave interaction i.e. in itself, in the body; of the body itself, leading to thought?

    Body is Vibration Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • In the same way, those feeling blue showed lower contrast between light intensities, meaning things appear sort of gray.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • Illustrating affects is a difficult task, as affects are in fact "intensities".

    Dezeen 2009

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