Definitions for scalar product
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
sca′lar prod′uct(n.)
Category: Math
Ref: inner product . 1
Origin of scalar product:
1875–80
Princeton's WordNet
scalar product, inner product, dot product(noun)
a real number (a scalar) that is the product of two vectors
Wiktionary
scalar product(Noun)
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.
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