English Explanatory Dictionary

scalar product

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

scalar product scalar products

Etymology

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

Synonyms

dot product

Related words

· inner product vector product
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