IEVref:112-01-05ID:
Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: intensive quantity
Synonym1: local quantity
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Definition: quantity that is determinable at any point of a system

NOTE 1 – In practice, the definition of an intensive quantity involves an average over a small three-dimensional domain around the point.

NOTE 2 – Examples: mass density, electric charge density, resistivity, thermodynamic temperature, pressure, Rockwell C hardness, any field quantity (IEV 102-05-17).


Publication date:2010-01
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Internal notes:2017-05-31: Prefix "IEV " added before cross-reference to IEV entry and dashes added. JGO
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