unit vector

English

Noun

unit vector (plural unit vectors)

1. (linear algebra, mathematical analysis) A vector with the length of 1, defined as ${\displaystyle \mathbf {\hat {u}} ={\frac {\mathbf {u} }{\|\mathbf {u} \|}}}$.

Hypernyms

• vector

Hyponyms

• direction vector

Meronyms

• direction cosine

Translations

vector with length 1

Arabic: مُتَّجِهٌ وَحْدَةَ m (muttajihun waḥdata) Czech: jednotkový vektor Danish: enhedsvektor c Finnish: yksikkövektori French: vecteur unité m, vecteur unitaire (fr) m German: Einheitsvektor (de) m Hungarian: egységvektor (hu) Norwegian: Norwegian Bokmål: enhetsvektor (no) m Norwegian Nynorsk: einingsvektor m Portuguese: versor (pt) m, vetor unitário m Spanish: vector unitario m Swedish: enhetsvektor (sv) c Thai: เวกเตอร์หนึ่งหน่วย (vék-dtə̂ə-nʉ̀ng-nùai) Turkish: birim vektör (tr)

See also

• unit sphere
• ◌̂

Further reading

• unit vector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia