Intensity vs. Isolation — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Intensity and Isolation
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Intensity
Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force.
Isolation
The act of isolating
Ordered the isolation of the sick patients.
Intensity
(Physics) The amount or degree of strength of electricity, light, heat, or sound per unit area or volume.
Isolation
The quality or condition of being isolated
Isolation on a desert island.
Intensity
The strength of a color, especially the degree to which it lacks its complementary color.
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Isolation
The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
She lived her final year in complete isolation, not wanting to see anybody.
Intensity
See saturation.
Isolation
The act of isolating.
Intensity
The quality of being intense.
Isolation
The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
Intensity
The degree of strength.
Isolation
(chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
Intensity
(physics) Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.
Isolation
(medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
Upon returning from the field, he went into isolation for a week so as not to infect anyone with potential diseases.
Intensity
(optics) Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
Isolation
(databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
Intensity
(astronomy) radiance.
Isolation
(psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
Intensity
(geology) The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings. The value depends on the distance from the epicentre, and is not to be confused with the magnitude.
Isolation
The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.
Intensity
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.
Isolation
A state of separation between persons or groups
Intensity
The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced.
Isolation
The act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
Intensity
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.
Isolation
A feeling of being disliked and alone
Intensity
The degree or depth of color or shade in a picture.
Isolation
Preference for seclusion or isolation
Intensity
The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation);
He adjusted the intensity of the sound
They measured the station's signal strength
Isolation
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
Intensity
High level or degree; the property of being intense
Isolation
A country's withdrawal from internal politics;
He opposed a policy of American isolation
Intensity
The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);
The kids played their music at full volume
Intensity
Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vividness of hue
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