intension
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈtɛnʃən/
intension (plural intensions)
- intensity or the act of becoming intense .
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- Sounds […] likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- (logic, semantics) Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted with actual instances in the real world to which the term applies.
- This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.
- (dated) A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.
- the intension of a musical string
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