Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

carbon-intensive

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English

Syllables
car-bon-in-ten-sive
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describing any process that has a high carbon footprint in relation to its economic importance

Inflected Forms

more carbon-intensive (comparative) most carbon-intensive (superlative)

Questions

What does carbon-intensive mean?
Describing any process that has a high carbon footprint in relation to its economic importance

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