| vector operation | description | 
|  | product of scalars | 
|  | scalar times vector gives vector | 
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|  | scalar times tensor gives tensor | 
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|  | scalar product of vectors gives scalar | 
|  | tensor product of vectors gives tensor | 
|  | tensor times vector gives vector | 
|  | ``scalar product'' of vector and tensor gives ``transposed'' vector | 
|  | tensor product (``matrix multiplication'') | 
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