vector product

English

Etymology

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

Noun

vector product (plural vector products)

1. (linear algebra) a vector with the size given by the product of two vectors computed as the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the sine of the angle between their directions, and directed perpendicular to the given two vectors, with positive orientation.

Synonyms

• cross product

Translations

vector with size given by the product of two vectors

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 向量積／向量积 (xiàngliàngjī), 矢量積／矢量积 (shǐliàngjī), 矢積／矢积 (zh) (shǐjī), 矢值 (shǐzhí)

• Czech: vektorový součin m
• Danish: vektorprodukt n, krydsprodukt n
• Dutch: kruisproduct n
• Finnish: vektoritulo (fi), ristitulo (fi)
• French: produit vectoriel m, produit extérieur m
• Hungarian: vektoriális szorzat (hu)
• Icelandic: krossfeldi n, krossmargfeldi n, vigurfeldi n, vigurmargfeldi n, vektormargfeldi n
• Italian: prodotto vettoriale (it) m
• Korean: 벡터곱 (bekteogop)
• Polish: iloczyn wektorowy m
• Portuguese: produto vectorial m, produto externo m
• Romanian: produs vectorial n
• Russian: ве́кторное произведе́ние n (véktornoje proizvedénije)
• Spanish: producto vectorial m, producto cruz m
• Swedish: vektorprodukt (sv) c, kryssprodukt (sv) c

See also

• scalar product