Meanings
nounscalar multiplication (countable and uncountable, plural scalar multiplications)
plural scalar multiplications
- countableuncountablelinear algebraMultiplication of a vector by a scalar (which belongs to the vector space's field of scalars).
- abstractcountableuncountablealgebramultiplication of a module element by a ring element
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