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How to pronounce intensifier in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms intensive
Type of qualifier, modifier
Derivation intensify


`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier.
`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier.

Examples of intensifier

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The CMOS sensor can be connected directly to an electronic image intensifier.
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The MCP intensifier is similar technology used for night vision applications.
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This treatment also uses aluminium as an intensifier.
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It is a different modality, an intensifier to all of that.
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Gating is a means by which an image intensifier tube may be switched on and off, like an electronic gate.
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A kind of intensifier, was my first guess.
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The X-ray images taken may either be still images, displayed on a image intensifier or film, or motion images.
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This can be used, for instance, as an image intensifier in which the discrete channels substitute for focussing.
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Development continued in the US as well during the 1930s and mid-1930, the first inverting image intensifier was developed at RCA.
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More examples
  • A modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
  • Intensifier is a linguistic term (but not a proper lexical category) for a modifier that makes no contribution to the propositional meaning of a clause but serves to enhance and give additional emotional context to the word it modifies. ...
  • An electronic device that creates an output image brighter than the input (original) image. Optical amplifier.
  • A word such as very that strengthens or intensifies the word it modifies.
  • The pumps used to create high-pressured waterjet streams. These high pressure intensifier pumps used hydraulics to create and deliver the high pressure water through the cutting head.
  • A device which amplifies or increases the pressure over that of the source pressure and applies it to a particular section of a system at the cost of reduced flow rate. Also see booster and amplifier.
  • A device which converts low pressure fluid power into higher pressure fluid power.
  • Amplifies and Balances extremely low levels of visible and IR lights to display usable pictures where other cameras are not able. ...