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incensement en · NOUN

Etymology

From incense + -ment.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Fury; rage; heat; exasperation.
   • He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't. c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 269:
2. (uncountable, usually) An output that measures the response of a system.
   • It can be seen from Fig. 92.8 that for condition 1, the uniformly distributed load is along the elliptical major axis, with the incensement of the ratio of elliptical minor axis and major axis (b/a), the maximum stress concentration factor on the hole's edge increases linearly, and the maximum value is about 3. 2012, Wenjiang Du, Informatics and Management Science III, page 714:
   • incensement in vorticity is caused by promotion of stretching and turning of the vortex lines and incensement of diffusion is caused by viscosity and density in homogeneity. 2010, Challa S. S. R. Kumar, Microfluidic Devices in Nanotechnology:
   • It is well known that the computational burden of nonlinear MPC strategies increases exponentially according to the incensement of the predictive horizon. 2020, Francesco Castellani, Davide Astolfi, Wind Turbine Power Optimization Technology, page 54:

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