1. scalar - Noun
2. scalar - Adjective
In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI believe in "intelligence," and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it-an I. Q. or the like. Peter Medawar
Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR. Larry Wall
Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster. Larry Wall
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he played some basic scalar patterns on his guitar Source: Internet
A basis independent definition of one such extension is : where ⟨a⟩ denotes the scalar part of a (the grade 0 part in the Z-grading). Source: Internet