cross product

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cross product

Etymology

Coined by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1881.

Noun

cross product (plural cross products)

(linear algebra) A vector product.
The cross product can be derived like so: given a pair of vectors $\xi$ and $\eta$ , solve for a vector $\zeta$ which is perpendicular to both $\xi$ and $\eta$ , i.e., whose dot product with both $\xi$ and $\eta$ is zero.

Translations

vector product — see vector product

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