inner product

1. 1.

   a real number (a scalar) that is the product of two vectors

   Synonymsscalar productdot product

   Broaderreal number

Questions about inner product

What does inner product mean?

inner product means "a real number (a scalar) that is the product of two vectors".

What is another word for inner product?

Close synonyms include scalar product, dot product. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inner product a common word?

inner product is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.