Intension meaning

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The state or quality of being intense; intensity.
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The act of becoming intense or more intense; intensification.
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The sum of the attributes contained in a term.
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Intentness; determination.
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Intensity or degree of intensity.
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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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(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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(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.

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

  • Magnetization produces inTension produces increase of crease of length in weak fields, magnetization in weak fields, decrease in strong fields.

  • Mill) equivalent to Intension, which is used to describe the sum of the qualities regarded as belonging to any given thing and involved in the name by which it is known; thus the term "elephant" connotes the having a trunk, a certain shape of body, texture of skin, and so on.

  • 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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