adjective
- having only magnitude and no direction
- arranged like a ladder; having a series of steps
Usage: mathematics; physics
Usage: technical
noun
- a quantity that has magnitude but no direction
Usage: mathematics; physics
Examples
- Temperature is a scalar quantity because it has no direction.
- Speed is scalar, while velocity is a vector.
- The scalar value represents the magnitude of the force.
- In physics class, we learned to distinguish between scalar and vector quantities.
- Mass and energy are examples of scalar measurements.
- The scalar arrangement of the data made it easy to read.
- Distance traveled is a scalar, regardless of the path taken.