dot product
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dot product
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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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 fourth property shows the relationship between the magnitude of a vector and its dot product with itself:
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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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For this reason, the dot product is often called the scalar product.
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Like vector addition and subtraction, the dot product has several algebraic properties.
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