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Definition of vector product
: a vector c whose length is the product of the lengths of two vectors a and b and the sine of their included angle, whose direction is perpendicular to their plane, and whose direction is that in which a right-handed screw rotated from a toward b along axis c would move
— called also cross product
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The first known use of vector product was in 1878
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