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Intensifier

noun
1.
A modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies.  Synonym: intensive.  "'honestly' in 'I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"






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"Intensifier" Quotes from Famous Books



... picture to intensify after fixing the image, and in an under-exposed picture to intensify before fixing. Whichever is done the intention is similar, namely, to intercept in a greater degree the light passing through a negative, so as to make a whiter and cleaner print. The usual intensifier—and, I suppose, there is no better—is pyrogallic acid, citric acid, water, and a few drops of silver nitrate solution. Pyrogallic is the most active agent, and might be used alone with water; but for special reasons it is not desirable. As a chemical it has a great affinity for oxygen, and will ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various



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