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sca·lar    Audio Help   [skey-ler] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.representable by position on a scale or line; having only magnitude: a scalar variable.
2.of, pertaining to, or utilizing a scalar.
3.ladderlike in arrangement or organization; graduated: a scalar structure for promoting personnel.
–noun
4.Mathematics, Physics. a quantity possessing only magnitude. Compare vector (def. 1a).

[Origin: 1650–60; < L scālāris of a ladder. See scale3, -ar1]
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sca·lar    Audio Help   (skā'lər, -lär')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. A quantity, such as mass, length, or speed, that is completely specified by its magnitude and has no direction.
    2. Mathematics A number, numerical quantity, or element in a field.
  1. A device that yields an output equal to the input multiplied by a constant, as in a linear amplifier.

adj.   Of or relating to a scalar.


[Latin scālāris, of a ladder, from scālae, ladder; see scale2.]

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scalar 
"resembling a ladder," 1656, from L. scalaris "of or pertaining to a ladder," from scalæ (pl.) "ladder, steps" (see scale (n.2)). Mathematical sense first recorded 1846.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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scalar

adjective
1. of or relating to a musical scale; "he played some basic scalar patterns on his guitar" 
2. of or relating to a directionless magnitude (such as mass or speed etc.) that is completely specified by its magnitude; "scalar quantity" 

noun
1. a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components 

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The American Heritage Science Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
scalar    Audio Help   (skā'lər)  Pronunciation Key 
A quantity, such as mass, length, or speed, whose only property is magnitude; a number. Compare vector.

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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

scalar
1. A single number, as opposed to a vector or matrix of numbers. Thus, for example, "scalar multiplication" refers to the operation of multiplying one number (one scalar) by another and is used to contrast this with "matrix multiplication" etc.
2. In a parallel processor or vector processor, the "scalar processor" handles all the sequential operations - those which cannot be parallelised or vectorised.
See also superscalar.
3. Any data type that stores a single value (e.g. a number or Boolean), as opposed to an aggregate data type that has many elements. A string is regarded as a scalar in some languages (e.g. Perl) and a vector of characters in others (e.g. C).
(2002-06-12)

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Scalar

Sca"lar\, n. (Math.) In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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