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

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

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When two vectors are combined using the dot product, the result is a scalar.

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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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The dot product provides a way to find the measure of this angle.

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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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