| Some physical and geometric quantities, called scalars, can be fully defined by specifying their magnitude in suitable units of measure. |
| Higgsinos and gauginos are the names of the fermionic superpartners of the Higgs scalars and gauge bosons respectively. |
| These contrast with scalars, which have a size but no direction, for example temperature or mass. |
| In contrast to vectors, ordinary quantities that have a magnitude but not a direction are called scalars. |
| Mortality rates are vectors, not scalars, i.e. one number per age and gender. |
| Their tests are based on statistics whose limiting distribution is always chi-squared, whether the response variables are scalars or functions. |
