scalar field

/ˌskeɪlər fild/
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Definitions of scalar field
  1. noun
    a field of scalars
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    (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
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