Scalar Definition

skālər, -lär
noun
A scalar quantity.
Webster's New World
A quantity, such as mass, length, or speed, that is completely specified by its magnitude and has no direction.
American Heritage
A device that yields an output equal to the input multiplied by a constant, as in a linear amplifier.
American Heritage
adjective
Designating or of a quantity that has magnitude but no direction in space, as volume or temperature.
Webster's New World
In, on, or involving a scale or scales.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to a scalar.
American Heritage

(mathematics) Having magnitude but not direction.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Scalar

Noun

Singular:
scalar
Plural:
scalars

Origin of Scalar

  • From Latin scālāris, adjectival form from scāla (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder, scale"), for *scadla, from scandere (“to climb"); compare scale.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin scālāris of a ladder from scālae ladder scale2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Scalar Sentence Examples

  • Although many pseudo-symmetric twins are transformable into the simpler form, yet, in some cases, a true polymorph results, the change being indicated, as before, by alterations in scalar (as well as vector) properties.

  • If we put qo= Sq' - Vq', then qo is called the conjugate of q', and the scalar q'qo = qoq' is called the norm of q' and written Nq'.

  • The fundamental character of energy in material systems here comes into view; if there were any other independent scalar entity, besides mass and energy, that pervaded them with relations of equivalence, we should expect the existence of yet another set of qualities analogous to those connected with temperature.

  • While polysymmetry is solely conditioned by the manner in which the mimetic twin is built up from the single crystals, there being no change in the scalar properties, and the vector properties being calculable from the nature of the twinning, in the case of polymorphism entirely different structures present themselves, both scalar and vector properties being altered; and, in the present state of our knowledge, it is impossible to foretell the characters of a polymorphous modification.

  • As an example of advection let us consider 1D advection of a constant gradient of some scalar.

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Words Starting With

SSCSCA

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RARLAR

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