Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vector space

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English

Syllables: vec-tor s-pace
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A set of elements called vectors, together with some field and operations called addition (mapping two vectors to a vector) and scalar multiplication (mapping a vector and an element in the field to a vector), satisfying a list of constraints; equivalently, a module over a field.

Example Sentences

"A vector space is a set of vectors which can be linearly combined."
"Each vector space has a basis and dimension."

Inflected Forms

vector spaces (plural)

Synonyms

linear space

Questions

What does vector space mean?: A set of elements called vectors, together with some field and operations called addition (mapping two vectors to a vector) and scalar multiplication (mapping a vector and an element in the field to a vector), satisfying a list of constraints; equivalently, a module over a field.

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