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発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛnʃən/
  • Homophone: intention

名詞

intension (複数形 intensions)

1. intensity or the act of becoming intense ^[1].
   • 1631, [Francis Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:

     Sounds […] likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind.

2. (logic, semantics) Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted with actual instances in the real world to which the term applies.
   • 1859–1860, William Hamilton, H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 648725:

     This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.

3. (dated) A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.

   the intension of a musical string

使用する際の注意点

Not to be confused with intention.

派生語

• intensional

関連する語

• extension
• comprehension

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