WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
in′ner prod′uct, [Math.]
- MathematicsAlso called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
- Mathematicsthe integral of the product of two real-valued functions.
- Mathematicsthe integral of the product of the first of two complex-valued functions and the conjugate of the second.
- Mathematicsa complex-valued function of two vectors taken in order, whose domain is a vector space.
- 1915–20
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