Sentences with phrase «called scalar»

It's called a scalar field in the jargon and that's precisely the kind of thing you might get from an extra dimension.

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The new theory was called TeVeS, an acronym for tensor, vector, and scalar — mathematical terms that describe how matter and energy interact with space and time in general relativity.

She called the crude oil on paper and board Scalar, after the Italian for ladder, but a scalar, too, is an entity in math — one with zero spatial dimensions, like a further concentration of paper, walls, andScalar, after the Italian for ladder, but a scalar, too, is an entity in math — one with zero spatial dimensions, like a further concentration of paper, walls, andscalar, too, is an entity in math — one with zero spatial dimensions, like a further concentration of paper, walls, and room.

In the Weitzman framework, if one strips out the fancy mathematics, what is meant by «increasing uncertainty» is still «increasing the likelihood attributed to catastrophic scenarios» (it is a convention that increasing the spread in the probability distribution of some scalar — in this case, some proxy for «harm» — is called «increasing uncertainty»).