scalar product
scalar product noun: the product of two vectors computed as the sum of the corresponding elements of the vectors, or, equivalently, as the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between their directions.
Noun
scalar product (plural scalar products)
- The product of two vectors computed as the sum of the corresponding elements of the vectors, or, equivalently, as the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between their directions.
- Synonyms:
- dot product
scalar product meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Vietnamese
scalar product in Hindi
- product of two vectors
- अदिश गुणनफल adiś guṇanphal, बिंदु गुणनफल bindu guṇanphal
scalar product in Tamil
- எண்ணளவுப்பெருக்கம், அளவெண் பெருக்கல், எண்ணளவுப் பெருக்கம்
scalar product in Malayalam
- അദിശഗുണനഫലം
scalar product in Vietnamese
- product of two vectors
- tích vô hướng
Synonyms of scalar product
Forms of scalar product
| plural | scalar products |
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Origin of scalar product
Coined by William Kingdon Clifford in 1877 in his book Elements of Dynamic.
Questions about scalar product
- What does scalar product mean?
- Scalar product means the product of two vectors computed as the sum of the corresponding elements of the vectors, or, equivalently, as the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between their directions.
- What is scalar product in Hindi?
- Scalar product in Hindi is अदिश गुणनफल (adiś guṇanphal), बिंदु गुणनफल (bindu guṇanphal). See Scalar product meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is scalar product?
- Scalar product is a noun.
- What is the plural of scalar product?
- The plural of scalar product is scalar products.
Words near scalar product in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: scalar product (page history and authors); scalar product (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scalar product (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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