scalar product

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Noun

scalar product (plural scalar products)

1. (vector algebra) 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

Translations

product of two vectors

• Danish: skalarprodukt (da) n
• Finnish: skalaaritulo (fi), pistetulo (fi), sisätulo (fi)
• French: produit scalaire (fr) m
• German: Skalarprodukt (de) n
• Greek: εσωτερικό γινόμενο (el) (esoteriko linomeno) n

• Hungarian: skaláris szorzat (hu)
• Icelandic: innfeldi (is) n, innra margfeldi (is) n, depilfeldi (is) n
• Italian: prodotto scalare (it) m, prodotto interno (it) m
• Polish: iloczyn skalarny (pl) m
• Portuguese: produto escalar (pt) m, produto interno (pt) m
• Russian: скалярное произведение (ru) (skaljarnoje proizvedenije) n
• Swedish: skalärprodukt (sv) c

See also

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• inner product
• vector product