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

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

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

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

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The first type of vector multiplication is called the dot product, based on the notation we use for it, and it is defined as follows:

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