Overintense

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Excessively intense.

    "It is as much a crack as the one which is made in the glasa when an overintense charge breaks through the side of a Leyden jar. The only difference in the two cases is that the crack remains in the glass, but is immediately effaced in the fluid and movable substance of the air."

Example

More examples

"It is as much a crack as the one which is made in the glasa when an overintense charge breaks through the side of a Leyden jar. The only difference in the two cases is that the crack remains in the glass, but is immediately effaced in the fluid and movable substance of the air."

Etymology

From over- + intense.

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