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intension

noun
/ɪnˈtɛnʃən/

Etymology

From Latin intēnsiō (“straining, effort; intensifying”), from intēnsus (“stretched”), perfect passive participle of intendō (“strain or stretch toward”).

  1. derived from intēnsiō — “straining, effort; intensifying”

Definitions

  1. intensity or the act of becoming intense.

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

  2. Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted with…

    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.

    • 'Is a plant', 'has a trunk', 'has leaves' are intensions of the concept tree. Its extension is the set of all trees existing in the real world.
    • This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.

  3. A straining, stretching, or bending

    A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.

    • the intension of a musical string

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at intension. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at intension. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at intension

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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