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scalar triple product

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Or triple scalar product

noun

Mathematics.

  1. the volume of the parallelepiped defined by three given vectors, u, v, and w, usually represented as uv 1 (v×w ), [ uvw ], or (uvw ), where × denotes a cross product and denotes an inner product.

Etymology

Origin of scalar triple product

First recorded in 1900–05

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