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scalar electrocardiogram(medicine)

scalar (iou)



scalar adjective & noun. M17.
[Latin scalaris, from scala ladder: see SCALE noun4, -AR1.]
A. adjective.
Resembling a ladder; Botany = SCALARIFORM. rare. M17.
Math. Of the nature of a scalar; of or pertaining to a scalar or scalars. M19.
scalar field a field defined at each point by a scalar quantity. scalar product a scalar function of two vectors, equal to the product of their magnitudes and the cosine of the angle between them; also called dot product.
Of or pertaining to a musical scale. E20.
Of or pertaining to a graduated scale. M20.
b. noun. Math. A real number; a quantity having magnitude but no direction, and representable by a single real number. Cf. VECTOR noun 2a. M19.