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

Example Sentences

The fourth property shows the relationship between the magnitude of a vector and its dot product with itself:

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Therefore, the tangent vector and the force vector have a positive dot product all along C1, and the line integral will have positive value.

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Like vector addition and subtraction, the dot product has several algebraic properties.

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

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The calculation involves forming vectors along the directions of the lines and using both the cross product and the dot product.

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