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Definition of Scalar

1. Noun. A variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to a musical scale. "He played some basic scalar patterns on his guitar"

3. Adjective. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude (such as mass or speed etc.) that is completely specified by its magnitude. "Scalar quantity"

Definition of Scalar

1. n. In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.

Definition of Scalar

1. Adjective. (mathematics) Having magnitude but not direction ¹

2. Adjective. Of, or relating to scale ¹

3. Noun. (mathematics) A quantity that has magnitude but not direction; compare vector ¹

4. Noun. (electronics) An amplifier whose output is a constant multiple of its input ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scalar

1. a mathematical quantity possessing only magnitude [n -S]

Medical Definition of Scalar

1. In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scalar

scala scala media scala tympani scala vestibuli scalabilities scalability scalable scalably scalade scalades

scalado scalados scalae scalage scalages scalar (current term) scalar curl scalar electrocardiogram scalar field scalar function

scalar functions scalar matrix scalar multiplication scalar product scalar products scalare scalares scalaria scalariform scalariformly

Literary usage of Scalar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A College Algebra by George Albert Wentworth (1903)
"The squares of all scalar numbers are positive scalar numbers; hence, a negative scalar number cannot be the square of a scalar number, and consequently the ..."

2. Vector Analysis: An Introduction to Vector-methods and Their Various by Joseph George Coffin (1911)
"The scalar or Dot Product. 15. The scalar Product of two vectors a and b, ... (26) This equation shows that the scalar product may be looked upon as the ..."

3. Vector Analysis: An Introduction to Vector-methods and Their Various by Joseph George Coffin (1911)
"The scalar or Dot Product. 15. The scalar Product of two vectors a and b, ... (26) This equation shows that the scalar product may be looked upon as the ..."

4. The Elements of Physics: A College Text-book by Edward Leamington Nichols, William Suddards Franklin (1898)
"scalar and vector products and quotients. — The product or quotient of a scalar and a vector is another vector parallel to the vector factor. Examples. ..."

5. Electrical Papers by Oliver Heaviside (1892)
"In a scalar equation every term is a scalar, or algebraic quantity, ... Let Av Av A3 be the three ordinary scalar components of A referred to any set of ..."

6. Electrical Papers by Oliver Heaviside (1894)
"In a scalar equation every term is a scalar, or algebraic quantity, ... Let Av Av Aa be the three ordinary scalar components of A referred to any set of ..."

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