scalar
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- noun
- /ˈskeɪlər/
- Specialized
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escalar
- So you have a vector in and a scalar out, right?
- scalar field
- scalar product
- scalar coupling
I'll give you an example of a scalar which can be observed.
- I'll give you an example of a scalar which can be observed.
- Because remember, R is really like a scalar, right?
- So first of all, intelligence is not a linear thing that you can measure with a scalar with a single number.
- So scalar, vector, matrix, topological computation, right?
Examples
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This is our scalar projection of B on to A, also written as the component of B along A like that.
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I'll give you an example of a scalar which can be observed.
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So first of all, intelligence is not a linear thing that you can measure with a scalar with a single number.
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We're just replacing scalar quantities with function quantities.
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We have a scalar cost, we have intermediate variables that here are vectors.
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Descriptive data are presented in overall percentages of reported responses on scalar and yes/no items.
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That is why both torque and angular momentum were treated as scalars and not as vectors.
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The temperature is a scalar quantity that indicates how hot or cold something is.
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Mass is an example of a scalar that only provides the amount of matter in an object.
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In physics, speed is often treated as a scalar because it has no direction, only magnitude.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A square grid of numbers with the same values on the main diagonal and zeros elsewhere
- Specialized
A single number you get by multiplying pairs of numbers from two vectors and adding them
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scalar comes from the Latin word scala meaning 'ladder' and is related to the English word scale; think of a scalar as one single step or number on that ladder, not a direction, so a scalar is a quantity with only size, like mass or temperature.