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

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

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

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As you might expect, to calculate the dot product of four-dimensional vectors, we simply add the products of the components as before, but the sum has four terms instead of three.

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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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