intensification
intensification Lexical Profile
intensification Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The action or process of making or becoming more intense, severe, or extreme in degree or strength.
"Meteorologists warned that warming ocean temperatures could lead to the rapid intensification of tropical storms."
An increase in agricultural or industrial productivity achieved by using more resources, labor, or capital per unit of land or time.
"Sustainable agricultural intensification aims to boost crop yields on existing farmland without clearing additional forests."
The chemical or digital process of increasing the optical density and contrast of a photographic image or negative.
"The archivist used chemical intensification to recover faint details from the underexposed glass-plate negative."
• Rhymes for intensification
Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the mid-19th century as a noun of action from the verb intensify, which traces back to the Latin adjective intensus ('stretched tight, strained'), the past participle of intendere ('to stretch out, strain').