Intension definition

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The state or quality of being intense; intensity.
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(logic) The sum of the attributes contained in a term.
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The act of becoming intense or more intense; intensification.
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(archaic) Intentness; determination.
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(archaic) Intensity or degree of intensity.
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(logic, semantics) Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted to actual instances in the real world to which the term applies.
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(logic) The properties possessed by all the objects in a term's extension; connotation.
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Intensity or the act of becoming intense .
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(dated) A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.

The intension of a musical string.

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Origin of intension

  • Latin intēnsiō intēnsiōn- from intēnsus stretched intense

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin intēnsiō (“straining, effort; intensifying”), from intēnsus (“stretched”), perfect passive participle of intendō (“strain or stretch toward”) .

    From Wiktionary

Intension Sentence Examples

  • In all argument it is essential that the speakers should be in agreement as to the Intension of the words they use.

  • General terms such as "Socialism," "Slavery," "Liberty," and technical terms in philosophy and theology are frequently the cause of controversies which would not arise if the disputants were agreed as to the Intension or Connotation of the terms. In addition Connotative terms, as those which imply attributes, are opposed to NonConnotative, which merely denote things without implying attributes.

  • It is clear that as scientific knowledge advances the Connotation or Intension of terms increases, and, therefore, that the Connotation of the same term may vary considerably according to the knowledge of the person who uses it.

  • Magnetization produces inTension produces increase of crease of length in all fields.

  • Her primary intension in this series of works was to explore the potential to reconfigure the viewer's relationship to space (6 ).

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