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intensifier

/in-ten-suh-fahy-er/US // ɪnˈtɛn səˌfaɪ ər //UK // (ɪnˈtɛnsɪˌfaɪə) //

强化器,强化剂,加强器,强化者

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that intensifies.
    • : Grammar. a word, especially an adverb, or other linguistic element that indicates, and usually increases, the degree of emphasis or force to be given to the element it modifies, as very or somewhat; intensive adverb.
    • : a ram-operated device for increasing hydraulic pressure.

Examples

  • As Felix put it, he was "very dead," though the word hardly admits of an intensifier.

  • The foregoing uranium bath acts as an intensifier while conferring a ruddy tone on the deposit.

  • The bulb hangs downward from the terminal t, the zinc sheet Z, performing the double office of intensifier and reflector.

  • The apparatus known as an intensifier was then used, by which any pressure required could be obtained.

  • Multiple intensifier is round and black; looks powerful; attendant says 360 horse power.