scalar multiplication

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Noun

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scalar multiplication (countable and uncountable, plural scalar multiplications)

  1. (linear algebra) Multiplication of a vector by a scalar (which belongs to the vector space's field of scalars).
  2. (abstract algebra) multiplication of a module element by a ring element

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