English
Etymology
Coined by William Kingdon Clifford in 1877 in his book Elements of Dynamic.
Noun
scalar product (plural scalar products)
- (linear algebra) The product of two vectors computed as the sum of the corresponding elements of the vectors, or, equivalently, as the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between their directions.
Synonyms
Translations
product of two vectors
- Asturian: productu escalar m, productu puntu m
- Catalan: producte escalar m, producte punt m
- Czech: skalární součin m
- Danish: skalarprodukt n, prikprodukt n
- Dutch: scalair product n
- Finnish: skalaaritulo, pistetulo, sisätulo
- French: produit scalaire (fr) m
- Galician: produto escalar m, produto punto m
- German: Skalarprodukt n
- Greek: εσωτερικό γινόμενο n (esoterikó ginómeno)
- Hindi: अदिश गुणनफल (adiś guṇanphal), बिंदु गुणनफल (bindu guṇanphal)
- Hungarian: skaláris szorzat (hu)
- Icelandic: innfeldi n, innra margfeldi n, depilfeldi n
- Italian: prodotto scalare (it) m
- Japanese: スカラー積 (ja) (sukarā-seki)
- Korean: 스칼라곱 (seukallagop)
- Polish: iloczyn skalarny (pl) m
- Portuguese: produto escalar m
- Romanian: produs scalar n
- Russian: скаля́рное произведе́ние n (skaljárnoje proizvedénije)
- Spanish: producto escalar m, producto punto m
- Swedish: skalärprodukt (sv) c
- Vietnamese: tích vô hướng
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