intensive: signification et définitions

Of, relating to, or characterized by intensity: intensive training. See Usage Note at intense.

Grammar Tending to emphasize or intensify: an intensive adverb.

Possessing or requiring to a high degree. Often used in combination: research-intensive; labor-intensive.

Relating to or being a method especially of land cultivation intended to increase the productivity of a fixed area by means of an increase in capital and labor.

Physics Having the same value for any subdivision of a thermodynamic system: intensive pressure.

Grammar A linguistic element, such as the adverb extremely or awfully, that provides force or emphasis. Also called intensifier.