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scalar product

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English

Syllables
scalar prod-uct
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Etymology

Coined by William Kingdon Clifford in 1877 in his book Elements of Dynamic.

Inflected Forms

scalar products (plural)

Phrases

inner product vector product

Frequently Paired Words

· inner product vector product

Synonyms

dot product inner product

Questions

What does scalar product mean?
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.
Where does scalar product come from?
Coined by William Kingdon Clifford in 1877 in his book Elements of Dynamic.

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