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

AAA sales for the month of May can be calculated using the dot product p · q.

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So, in this example, the dot product tells us how much money the fruit vendor had in sales on that particular day.

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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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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.

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

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