dot product
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dot product
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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AAA sales for the month of May can be calculated using the dot product p · q.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
As you might expect, to calculate the dot product of four-dimensional vectors, we simply add the products of the components as before, but the sum has four terms instead of three.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
In this section, we develop an operation called the dot product, which allows us to calculate work in the case when the force vector and the motion vector have different directions.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
For this reason, the dot product is often called the scalar product.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
The dot product can also help us measure the angle formed by a pair of vectors and the position of a vector relative to the coordinate axes.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
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