intensifier
- n a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier
`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier
- Wilson and Earle Slipher predicted that the image intensifier would break the Mars deadlock.
- The intensifier, which Coltman calls a "telescope," works by a triple play, from X rays to light rays to electrons and back to light again; it amplifies the X rays only after they .
- Wilson and Earle Slipher predicted that the image intensifier would break the Mars deadlock.