vector space

noun

Definition of vector space

: a set of vectors along with operations of addition and multiplication such that the set is a commutative group under addition, it includes a multiplicative inverse, and multiplication by scalars is both associative and distributive

Examples of vector space in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Inherent in the vector space approach is the idea that our coordinate system is based on straight lines, and the space is flat. — Ian Stewart, Wired, 7 Sep. 2021 Similar words appear closer to each other in the vector space. — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 27 June 2018 In this approach, words and phrases are mapped onto a geometrical space known as a vector space, which captures degrees of similarity among different words in a corpus (a large collection of texts). — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 27 June 2018

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