| Definition: | supplements the name of 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
NOTE 1 – Examples: density of heat flow rate or areic heat flow rate, electric current density, magnetic flux density (sometimes called magnetic induction).
NOTE 2 – 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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