intension

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Intensity or the act of becoming intense.
    — Sounds […] likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind.
  2. Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted with actual instances in the real world to which the term applies.
    — 'Is a plant', 'has a trunk', 'has leaves' are intensions of the concept tree. Its extension is the set of all trees existing in the real world.
  3. A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained. dated
    — the intension of a musical string

词形变化

intensions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cointension intensional

词源

From Latin intēnsiō (“straining, effort; intensifying”), from intēnsus (“stretched”), perfect passive participle of intendō (“strain or stretch toward”).
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