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Intensification   /ɪntˌɛnsəfəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Intensification

noun
1.
Action that makes something stronger or more extreme.
2.
The act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film).






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"Intensification" Quotes from Famous Books



... believably predicts the next ice age is coming. Glaciers will be upon us sooner than we know unless we reverse intensification of atmospheric carbon dioxide by remineralization of the soil. Very useful for its exploration of the agricultural use of rock flours. Helps one stand back from the current global warming panic and ask if ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... again by the more apparent drama, and looked and listened greedily. Eaton at last retired, much damaged, and Commodore Truxtun was sworn. This was a man of different calibre, and from side to side of the long room occurred a subtle intensification of respect, interest, and attention. On went the examination, this time favourable, on the whole, to Burr. "The prisoner frequently, in conversation with me, mentioned the subject of speculations in western lands, opening a canal and building a bridge. Colonel Burr also said to me that the government ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston

... would be hard to find anywhere in our literature a more revealing utterance of those effects of alcohol that are not discussed in scientific literature—the joyous exhilaration, the conviction of (comparative) sobriety, the temporary intensification of the feeling of good fellowship. The challenge to the moon is unsurpassable in its unconscious humor. Yet Arnold thought the world ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson



Words linked to "Intensification" :   focusing, focalisation, roughness, increase, aggravation, step-up, photography, picture taking, focalization, exacerbation, intensify



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