Meaning of Intension | Babel Free

Definitions

1. intensity or the act of becoming intense.
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.
3. A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.
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Examples

“Sounds […] likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind.”

“'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.”

“This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.”

“the intension of a musical string”

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