"exterior product" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: exterior products [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} exterior product (plural exterior products)
  1. (algebra) A kind of product between vectors and/or multivectors which is associative, linear, and alternating. Categories (topical): Algebra Synonyms: Grassmann product Related terms: exterior algebra, exterior derivative, wedge product
    Sense id: en-exterior_product-en-noun-FfRHFWQl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: algebra, mathematics, sciences

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          "text": "The exterior product between a multivector of grade k and a multivector of grade n is a multivector of grade k+n, unless k+n is larger than the dimension of the vector space to which the vectors belong (out of which the multivectors are constructed), in which case their product is zero."
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