The distance from the electrode where the ratio
reaches a given value.
(

is the
interfacial concentration,

is the concentration,

is the value in the
bulk solution.) If this ratio is selected as, say, 0.99 the corresponding thickness
of the
diffusion layer is denoted by

.
Source:
PAC, 1981, 53, 1827
(Nomenclature for transport phenomena in electrolytic systems)
on page 1837