1. The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree;
as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
If you would deepen the intensity of light, you must be content to
bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline
the shade that accompanies it.
F. W. Robertson.
2. (Physics) The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates
or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced.
3. (Mech.) The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress,
weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be;
as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty pounds
which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches
area is ten pounds per square inch.