unit vector

English

Noun

unit vector (plural unit vectors)

(linear algebra, mathematical analysis) A vector with the length of 1, defined as $\mathbf {\hat {u}} ={\frac {\mathbf {u} }{\|\mathbf {u} \|}}$ .

Hypernyms

vector

Hyponyms

direction vector

Meronyms

direction cosine

Translations

vector with length 1

Arabic: مُتَّجِهٌ وَحْدَةَ m (muttajihun waḥdata)
Czech: jednotkový vektor
Danish: enhedsvektor c
Finnish: yksikkövektori
French: vecteur unité m, vecteur unitaire (fr) m
German: Einheitsvektor (de) m
Hungarian: egységvektor (hu)
Norwegian:
Norwegian Bokmål: enhetsvektor (no) m

Norwegian Nynorsk: einingsvektor m
Portuguese: versor (pt) m, vetor unitário m
Spanish: vector unitario m
Swedish: enhetsvektor (sv) c
Thai: เวกเตอร์หนึ่งหน่วย (vék-dtə̂ə-nʉ̀ng-nùai)
Turkish: birim vektör (tr)

See also

Further reading

unit vector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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