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Intensity

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Intensity may refer to:

In colloquial use

  • Strength (disambiguation)
  • Amplitude
  • Level (disambiguation)
  • Magnitude (disambiguation)

In physical sciences

Physics

  • Intensity (physics), power per unit area (W/m2)
  • Field strength of electric, magnetic, or electromagnetic fields (V/m, T, etc.)
  • Intensity (heat transfer), radiant heat flux per unit area per unit solid angle (W·m−2·sr−1)
  • Electric current, whose value is sometimes called current intensity in older books

Optics

Astronomy

  • Radiance, power per unit solid angle per unit projected source area (W·sr−1·m−2)

Seismology

Acoustics

Other uses

  • Value intensity in philosophy and ethics
  • In video luminous emittance, the luminous flux per unit area (lm/m2 or lux)
  • Energy intensity, an economic measure of energy consumed per unit of GDP (J/$, etc.)
  • Carbon intensity, any of several measures of release of carbon into the environment
  • Floor area ratio, the ratio of the total floor area of buildings on a certain location to the size of the land of that location, or the zoning limit imposed on such a ratio
  • Intensity (measure theory), the average value a measure assigns to an interval of length one
  • Exercise intensity, a measure of how much work is done during exercise (% of max heart rate)
  • Intensity (novel), a 1995 novel by Dean Koontz
  • Intensity (Charles Earland album), 1972
  • Intensity (Art Pepper album), 1960
  • Intensity (John Klemmer album), 1973
  • Intensity!, a 1999 album by The Bambi Molesters
  • Intensity (video game), a 1988 video game.

See also

  • Brightness
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