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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The numerical product of the lengths of two vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
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- noun The
product of twovectors computed as the sum of the correspondingelements of the vectors, or, equivalently, as the product of themagnitudes of the vectors and thecosine of theangle between their directions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a real number (a scalar) that is the product of two vectors
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