dot product

American  

noun

Mathematics.

1. inner product.

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dot product British  

noun

1. another name for scalar product

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Etymology

Origin of dot product

First recorded in 1930–35

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dot product

For this reason, the dot product is often called the scalar product.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

The dot product essentially tells us how much of the force vector is applied in the direction of the motion vector.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

This property is a result of the fact that we can express the dot product in terms of the cosine of the angle formed by two vectors.

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Direction angles are often calculated by using the dot product and the cosines of the angles, called the direction cosines.

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The dot product provides a way to find the measure of this angle.

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