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sca·lar (skālər)

adjective

  1. in, on, or involving a scale or scales
  2. Math. designating or of a quantity that has magnitude but no direction in space, as volume or temperature

Etymology: L scalaris, of a ladder < scalae, steps, ladder: see scale

noun

a scalar quantity

scalar Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • add: CADD Adds a scalar to an NDF data structure.
  • return: Subroutines, like bare blocks, may return either a scalar or a list value to the calling context.
  • contain: If X or N are arrays, ITER will contain a scalar representing the maximum number of iterations.
  • involve: So clearly the new procurement will involve both scalar, vector and parallel national facilities.
  • include: Later parts of the module will assume familiarity with elementary material on vectors in 2 and 3 dimensions including scalar and vector products.
  • call: This sort of multiplication is given a special name; it is scalar multiplication, because the numbers are sometimes called scalars.

Adjective modifier

  • passive: We propose to adapt some recent results obtained for the Navier-Stokes equations to the passive scalar.
  • simple: However, a ` ` simple scalar ' ' includes an identifier that itself uses method 1 recursively.
  • null: There are actually two varieties of null scalars: defined and undefined.

Modifies a noun

  • implicatures: Part 2 presents a wide range of topics, whereas Part 3 is focussed on scalar implicatures.
  • implicature: When children are more logical than adults: Experimental investigations of scalar implicature.
  • multiplication: Cayley gave a matrix algebra defining addition, multiplication, scalar multiplication and inverses.
  • curvature: Abstract: I will spend half the talk motivating the search for constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics.
  • variable: May refer to a scalar variable or an element of an array.
  • integer: RESERVE [ = n ] n indicates a scalar integer constant or default integer-type scalar variable name.

Modifying Another Word

  • fast: Some mathematical functions have vectorized version, inlining version, and fast scalar version.
  • only: Currently ( as of Perl 5.6 ) only scalar values may be used as assignable return values.

Noun used with modifier

  • integer: M An integer scalar or array, - L £ M £ L, specifying the order m of.
  • string: However, a byte scalar also becomes a string scalar.

Preposition: of

type: Otherwise, the argument will be converted to a scalar of the appropriate type.

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