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Vocabulary Entry
scalar
|noun • adjective
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N
noun
A quantity that only has magnitude and no direction.
Example Sentences
"Temperature is a scalar because it only has a value."
"In physics, speed is a scalar, indicating how fast something is moving."
"In mathematics, the term 'scalar' often refers to a real number."
A
adjective
Referring to a quantity that has magnitude but no direction.
Example Sentences
"The scalar value of the measurement was reported without any directional information."
"In contrast to vectors, scalars represent quantities like mass and volume."
"He applied a scalar multiplication to the matrix."