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Meaning of "protensity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROTENSITY

protensity  [prəʊˈtensɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROTENSITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Protensity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROTENSITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of protensity in the English dictionary

The definition of protensity in the dictionary is the actuality of duration.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROTENSITY


aduncity
əˈdʌnsɪtɪ
capacity
kəˈpæsɪtɪ
city
ˈsɪtɪ
complexity
kəmˈplɛksɪtɪ
density
ˈdɛnsɪtɪ
diversity
daɪˈvɜːsɪtɪ
electricity
ɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ
ethnicity
ɛθˈnɪsɪtɪ
extensity
ɪkˈstɛnsɪtɪ
immensity
ɪˈmɛnsɪtɪ
intensity
ɪnˈtɛnsɪtɪ
neutral-density
ˈnjuːtrəl ˈdensɪtɪ
overintensity
ˌəʊvərɪnˈtɛnsɪtɪ
propensity
prəˈpɛnsɪtɪ
simplicity
sɪmˈplɪsɪtɪ
single-density
ˌsɪŋɡəlˈdɛnsɪtɪ
superintensity
ˌsuːpərɪnˈtɛnsɪtɪ
tensity
ˈtɛnsɪtɪ
university
ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsɪtɪ
velocity
vɪˈlɒsɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROTENSITY

protein content
protein deficiency
proteinaceous
proteinase
proteinic
proteinous
proteinuria
protend
protense
protension
protensive
protensively
proteoclastic
proteoglycan
proteolyse
proteolysis
proteolytic
proteolytically
proteome
proteomic

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROTENSITY

bone density
charge density
critical density
current density
double density
earthquake intensity
electric flux density
flux density
high-density
luminous intensity
magnetic flux density
neutral density
optical density
packing density
radiant intensity
reflection density
relative density
single density
State university
transmission density
vapour density

Synonyms and antonyms of protensity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «protensity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROTENSITY

Find out the translation of protensity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of protensity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «protensity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

protensity
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

protensity
570 millions of speakers

English

protensity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

protensity
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

protensity
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

protensity
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

protensity
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

protensity
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

protensity
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perlindungan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

protensity
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

protensity
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

protensity
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Protèktif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

protensity
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

protensity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रेणुता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

protensity
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

protensity
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

protensity
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

protensity
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

protensity
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

protensity
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

protensity
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

protensity
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

protensity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of protensity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTENSITY»

The term «protensity» is used very little and occupies the 170.447 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTENSITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «protensity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «protensity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about protensity

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROTENSITY»

Discover the use of protensity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to protensity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Language in Time and Space: A Festschrift for Werner Winter ...
Protensity, on the other hand, is essentially a timing feature (Jakobson and Halle 1971: 554; Jakobson and Waugh 1979: 138). Obstruents that differ in protensity form gradient (contrary) oppositions. Phonemic protensity is typically ...
Brigitte L. M. Bauer, Georges-Jean Pinault, 2003
2
Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues: COST ...
From Extensity to Protensity in CAS: Adding Sounds to Icons Alina E. Lascu and Alexandru V. Georgescu “LUCIAN BLAGA” University of Sibiu, Romania Faculty of Political Sciences, International Relations and Security Studies ...
Anna Esposito, Amir Hussain, Maria Marinaro, 2009
3
Studies in Time Perception
Theories of Time Perception The duration of time of which an individual is aware is sometimes termed as 'protensity' in order to distinguish it from physical duration . According to one view, the amount of protensity depends on the physical ...
Palamand Rama Rao, 1978
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Dynamics of the English Phonological System
The developments in both tone oppositions and protensity oppositions were responses of the phonological system to the same stimulus - the disintegration of the separate class of sonants and the resulting integration of its former members in ...
V. Y. Plotkin, 1972
5
Sandhi Phenomena in the Languages of Europe
Many of these particulars would require too much space to be discussed here. But I will mention some evidence for the protensity feature in early Polish (2.3.3), some evidence for the shift from phonemic protensity 240 Henning Andersen.
Henning Andersen, 1986
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Journal of Speech and Hearing Research: A Publication of the ...
This latter finding is of particular interest in view of our information pertaining to the relation between certain physiological parameters and protensity- jaudging behavior. It has been reported that overestimation of physical time may be ...
‎1966
7
Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction
The particular melancholy of the photographic image, according to Barthes, is the fact that “it is without future (this is its pathos, its melancholy); in it, no protensity, whereas the cinema is protensive, hence in no way melancholic (what is it, then ...
Arved Mark Ashby, 2010
8
Stuttering: An Integrated Approach to Its Nature and Treatment
Barasch and colleagues (2000) administered the Duration Pattern Sequence ( DPS) test, which involves judging the relative lengths of three tones, and another measure in which subjects estimated the protensity (i.e., durations) of tones and ...
Barry Guitar, 2013
9
An Introduction to the Theory of Perception
But analysis of our perceptions shows that sensations are characterized by intensity, extensity, and protensity, these factors varying in different sensations. The element of protensity, i.e. the time element, is specially prominent in conjunction ...
John Herbert Parsons, 2013
10
Psychological Principles
But, though the fixation of attention actually occupies more or less clock-time, it is not experienced as a ' length' traversed, but rather as a peculiar intensity—what we have hitherto called ' protensity.' Thus, if this supposition be true, there is an ...
James Ward, 2013

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROTENSITY»

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Why is Nicholson Baker so obsessed with sex?
The Mezzanine is a slim book of Proust-like protensity, describing its narrator's return to his office one afternoon through the kaleidoscope of his wandering ... «Slate Magazine, Aug 11»

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