FIELD INTENSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field intensity mean? 

• FIELD INTENSITY (noun)
  The noun FIELD INTENSITY has 1 sense:

1. the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field

  Familiarity information: FIELD INTENSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD INTENSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

field intensity; field strength

Hypernyms ("field intensity" is a kind of...):

intensity; intensity level; strength (the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "field intensity"):

magnetic field strength; magnetic flux density; magnetic induction; magnetic intensity (the amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow)

 Context examples 

A constant of proportionality that exists between electric displacement and electric field intensity in a vacuum.

(Electric Permittivity of Vacuum, NCI Thesaurus)