APA Dictionary of Psychology
scalar
- n. a quantity having only magnitude and not direction. Compare vector.
- n. in matrix algebra, a quantity that can multiply a vector in a vector space to produce another vector.
- adj. describing a variable that can be represented by positions on a scale.
- adj. describing a matrix in which the entries along the main diagonal are equal and all other entries are zero.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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