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intensives

intensives is the plural of intensive.

Meaning of intensive

Noun

intensive (plural intensives)

  1. A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built.
  2. A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
    • Beginning in 2014, ETSI [the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative] embarked on a six-year implementation phase at three monastic universities (Sera, Ganden, and Drepung). This program is composed of summer intensives taught by faculty from Emory and other institutions, year-round study led by on-site...2017, “Supporting Organizations”, in Wendy Hasenkamp, Janna R. White, editors, The Monastery and the Microscope: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mind, Mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality, New...

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Phrases with intensives

Questions about intensives

What is intensives the plural of?
Intensives is the plural of intensive.

Words near intensives in the dictionary

  1. intensive-care unit
  2. intensive-care units
  3. intensively
  4. intensiveness
  5. intensivenesses
  6. intensives
  7. intensivist
  8. intensivists
  9. intensivity
  10. intent
  11. intent filter

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