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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



... rare hot-house flower. It is no wild and delicate plant growing in a remote and inhuman soil. It is simply the intensification, to a point of fine poetic fury, of emotions and attitudes and gestures which we all share under the pressure of ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys
... Annette Godefroi of Metz, fresh-coloured, broad-faced and fair-braided, a "bonne Lorraine" if ever there was, acquired in New York: I enjoy the echo of their very names, neither unprecedented nor irreproducible, yet which melt together for me, to intensification, with all the rest; with the recovered moment, above all, of our pause at the inn-door in the cool sunshine—we had mounted and mounted—during which, in my absurdly cushioned state, I took in, as I have hinted, ...
— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James
... rolled and reverberated among the hills. There was a hollow, tremendous intensification of the echoes aloft as if a dome of some solid substance had reflected back the sound. Slowly the rollings died away. Then a voice boomed through a speaker overhead, and despite his suspicions Thorn felt ...
— Invasion • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... find in it a real hospitality to the inherited faith they take over. It is possible, therefore, to belong to the cult and at the same time to continue one's established religious life without any very great violence and indeed with a possible intensification of ...
— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins
... desired tone. A bath of equal volumes of saturated solutions of alum and ferrous sulphate gives the negative a deep olive-brown color and an extraordinary intensity, which excludes all possible necessities of an after intensification. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 • Various


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


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