scalar product

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsinner productdot product

   Broaderreal number

Questions about scalar product

What does scalar product mean?

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

What is another word for scalar product?

Close synonyms include inner 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 scalar product a common word?

scalar 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.