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

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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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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The dot product allows us to do just that.

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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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