How does intrinsic work?

Question

I have never heard of this intrinsic value before until I come across this page on MDN.

From what I know intrinsic means

Answer 1

It allows you to set the width of an element to stretch wide enough to accommodate its children. So, if a div element contained a wide image and some text, the div would stretch wide enough to accommodate the image, and the text would begin breaking at that threshold.

Definitely experimental and not widely supported: http://caniuse.com/intrinsic-width