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Scalar Product

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Verified for the 2026 examโ€ขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated August 2025

Definition

The scalar product, also known as dot product, is a mathematical operation that takes two vectors and returns a scalar quantity. It measures how much of one vector acts in the direction of another vector.

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