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 dot product essentially tells us how much of the force vector is applied in the direction of the motion vector.

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

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The dot product allows us to do just that.

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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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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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