| Definition: | supplements a quantity name for a quantity expressing a flux or a current within three-dimensional space to indicate the quotient of such a quantity by the area of a surface
EXAMPLE density of heat flow rate or areic heat flow rate, electric current density (see IEV 121-11-11), magnetic flux density.
Note 1 to entry: In English, "density" also, and more commonly, means specific mass. In French, the term "densité" means relative mass density (or relative density).
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