INTENSITY LEVEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intensity level mean? 

• INTENSITY LEVEL (noun)
  The noun INTENSITY LEVEL has 1 sense:

1. the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)

  Familiarity information: INTENSITY LEVEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTENSITY LEVEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

intensity; intensity level; strength

Context example:

they measured the station's signal strength

Hypernyms ("intensity level" is a kind of...):

magnitude (the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intensity level"):

radio brightness (the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope)

threshold level (the intensity level that is just barely perceptible)

field intensity; field strength (the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field)

candlepower; light intensity (luminous intensity measured in candelas)

acoustic power; sound pressure level (the physical intensity of sound)

half-intensity (half the maximum intensity)