scalar product

English

Etymology

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

Noun

scalar product (plural scalar products)

1. (linear 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

• Czech: skalární součin m
• Danish: skalarprodukt n, prikprodukt n
• Dutch: scalair product n
• Finnish: skalaaritulo, pistetulo, sisätulo
• French: produit scalaire (fr) m
• German: Skalarprodukt n
• Greek: εσωτερικό γινόμενο n (esoterikó ginómeno)
• Hungarian: skaláris szorzat (hu)
• Icelandic: innfeldi n, innra margfeldi n, depilfeldi n
• Italian: prodotto scalare (it) m
• Japanese: スカラー積 (ja) (sukarā-seki)
• Korean: 스칼라곱 (seukallagop)
• Polish: iloczyn skalarny m
• Portuguese: produto escalar m
• Romanian: produs scalar n
• Russian: скаля́рное произведе́ние n (skaljárnoje proizvedénije)
• Spanish: producto escalar m, producto punto
• Swedish: skalärprodukt (sv) c
• Vietnamese: tích vô hướng

See also

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• inner product
• vector product