inner product

See scalar product.

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in′ner prod′uct

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. Also called dot product, scalar product.

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

dot product, scalar product

real, real number - any rational or irrational number

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