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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Example Sentences

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dot product

Going back to the fruit vendor, let’s think about the dot product, q · p.

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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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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.

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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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Note that if u and v are two-dimensional vectors, we calculate the dot product in a similar fashion.

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