Skip to main content
intensification

intensification

7.8
Making a photo or film darker and clearer to show more detail
  • noun
  • /ɪnˌtɛnsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : intensificación

Examples

  • So even this white lie falsifies experience: intensification and clarity are misrepresentations.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Can biological disturbances lead to disturbance intensification if they coincide with or result from physical disturbance?

    Academic text (2013)
  • The operators investigated were "concentration" and "intensification." Concentration has the effect of creating a membership function for the modified expression that is less than that for the unmodified expression in parts of the distribution where the latter is less than 1.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Language supports and sustains the subtle chromatic intensification as the Angel explains that the landscape he sees is not heaven but the earth, which even angels often envy, and that the kingdom of heaven is actually "harmony between the earth and the heart."

    Academic text (1991)
  • In direct contrast, economic reform in these countries, as in China, was primarily based on market and trade liberalization; that is, the withdrawal, not the intensification, of state controls (Haggard and Kaufman 1995; MacIntyre 1994).

    Academic text (2002)
  • The photograph showed remarkable clarity after the intensification process was applied to the image.

  • For better results, photographers often rely on intensification techniques that enhance the contrast of their images.

  • In the darkroom, intensification is crucial to improving the visual impact of a photographic print.

Synonyms

heightening
vsintensification
1 4.6

An increase in how strong or serious something becomes

is the specific photographic process of boosting contrast or density for clearer images

Antonyms

desaturation
  • Specialized
7.5

Making a color look softer and less bright

How Intense

intensification
  • Specialized
7.8
enhancement
81 4.2
adjustment
133 2.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

intensification = intensify (transparent) = intense + ify + ation

Regular nominalization of 'intensify' with '-ation'; in this sense it refers to the process of making visual properties (contrast, color) more intense.

Etymology

Intensification comes from the same parts as intense and tension: in- ('into') plus a root meaning 'to stretch'. In photography, intensification means making the tones or contrast stronger so details become clearer, which fits the idea of 'making something stronger'.