unit vector

unit vector (plural unit vectors)

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

• vector

• direction vector

• direction cosine

• unit sphere
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