half-intensity

1. 1.

   half the maximum intensity

   Broaderintensity

Questions about half-intensity

What does half-intensity mean?

half-intensity means "half the maximum intensity".

How many syllables are in half-intensity?

half-intensity has 5 syllables and divides as hal-f-in-ten-si-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is half-intensity a common word?

half-intensity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.