There is little to be said about density other than to define it as mass per unit volume. However, this expression does not literally mean the mass of a cubic metre, for after all a cubic metre is a l...There is little to be said about density other than to define it as mass per unit volume. However, this expression does not literally mean the mass of a cubic metre, for after all a cubic metre is a large volume, and the density may well vary from point to point throughout the volume. Density is an intensive quantity in the thermodynamical sense, and is defined at every point.