intensities
- 1Plural of intensity.
The earthquakes varied widely in their intensities across the region.
Stage lighting can be set to several different intensities during a single scene.
Note
A plural that only the countable side of intensity can take. The quality of being intense does not pluralize, but measured degrees of strength do, so the form appears wherever strengths are compared: lamps, beams of radiation, tremors. Seismology shows the distinction clearly. One earthquake has a single magnitude but many intensities, because intensity measures its effects at a given place and changes with distance from the epicenter.
intensities is a form of intensity
intensity, noun: The degree to which something is strong, powerful, or extreme. Full entry
- Forms
- intensityintensities plural
- Spelling
- intensity → intensities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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