unit vector

English

Noun

unit vector (plural unit vectors)

1. (linear algebra, mathematical analysis) A vector with the length of 1, defined as $\mathbf {\hat {u}} ={\frac {\mathbf {u} }{\|\mathbf {u} \|}}$.

Hypernyms

• vector

Hyponyms

• direction vector

Meronyms

• direction cosine

Translations

vector with length 1

• Arabic: مُتَّجِهٌ وَحْدَةَ m (muttajihun waḥdata)
• Czech: jednotkový vektor
• Danish: enhedsvektor c
• Finnish: yksikkövektori
• French: vecteur unité m, vecteur unitaire (fr) m
• German: Einheitsvektor (de) m
• Hungarian: egységvektor (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: enhetsvektor (no) m

  Norwegian Nynorsk: einingsvektor m

• Portuguese: versor (pt) m, vetor unitário m
• Spanish: vector unitario m
• Swedish: enhetsvektor (sv) c
• Thai: เวกเตอร์หนึ่งหน่วย (vék-dtə̂ə-nʉ̀ng-nùai)
• Turkish: birim vektör (tr)

See also

• unit sphere
• ◌̂

Further reading

• unit vector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia