different between colour vs intensity
colour
English
Alternative forms
- color (American spelling)
Pronunciation
Homophone: culler
Noun
colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.
Adjective
colour (not comparable)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.
Related terms
- colourimeter
Verb
colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- courol, ur-cool
Middle English
Alternative forms
- colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku?lu?r/, /?kulur/
Noun
colour (plural colours or coloures)
- colour, hue, shade
- pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
- method (literary or rhetorical)
- justification, explanation (often feigned)
Descendants
- English: color, colour
- Scots: colour
References
- “c?l?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also
Old French
Noun
colour f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color
colour From the web:
- what colours look good with grey
- what colours go with grey sofa
- what colour goes with dark purple
- what colours go with grey walls
- what colour are my eyes
- what colours make brown
- what colour is precum
- what colour is the sun
intensity
English
Etymology
intense +? -ity. Cf. also Medieval Latin intensitas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?t?ns?ti/
Noun
intensity (plural intensities)
- The quality of being intense.
- The degree of strength.
- (physics) Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.
- (optics) Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
- (astronomy) Synonym of radiance.
- (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.
Derived terms
- light intensity
- luminous intensity
Related terms
- intense
Translations
intensity From the web:
- what intensity means
- what intensity exercise should i do
- what intensity should warm-up activities be
- what intensity is yoga
- what intensity is walking
- what intensity is running
- what intensity level is walking
- what intensity is jogging
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