Attribute to a physical quantity obtained by division by volume. Charge density may thus be called volumic charge which is the electric charge in a section of space divided by the volume of that section.
Source:
ISO 31-0: 1992
(Quantities and Units - Part 0: General Principles, Units and Symbols.)
PAC, 1985, 57, 1310
PAC, 1996, 68, 957
(Glossary of terms in quantities and units in Clinical Chemistry (IUPAC-IFCC Recommendations 1996))
on page 999
Transformed and rewritten from PDF version (entry
http://www.iupac.org/goldbook/V06651.pdf)
by: Miloslav Nic, Jiri Jirat, Bedrich Kosata, ICT Prague, Czech Republic