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INTENSITY LEVEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)
Example:
they measured the station's signal strength
Synonyms:
intensity; intensity level; strength
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("intensity level" is a kind of...):
magnitude (the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intensity level"):
radio brightness (the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope)
threshold level (the intensity level that is just barely perceptible)
field intensity; field strength (the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field)
candlepower; light intensity (luminous intensity measured in candelas)
acoustic power; sound pressure level (the physical intensity of sound)
half-intensity (half the maximum intensity)
