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   intensive

   /ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. concentrated on a single subject or into a short time; very thorough or vigorous: "she undertook an intensive Arabic course"
   • ▪ (of agriculture) aiming to achieve maximum production within a limited area, especially by using chemical and technological aids: "intensive farming"
   • ▪ (typically in business and economics) concentrating on or making much use of a specified thing: "computer-intensive methods"
   • 2. (of an adjective, adverb, or particle) giving force or emphasis.
   • 3. denoting a property which is measured in terms of intensity (e.g. concentration) rather than of extent (e.g. volume), and so is not simply increased by addition of one thing to another.

   noun

   • 1. an intensive adjective, adverb, or particle; an intensifier.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘vehement, intense’): from French intensif, -ive or medieval Latin intensivus, from intendere (see intend).

   Derivatives

   • 1. intensiveness noun

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