Why is cos used in dot product?

Related questions

1. What is dot product geometrically?
2. What is vector triple product or box product?
3. Why dot product is a scalar?
4. How do you find the scalar product?
5. Why is dot product cos?
6. Can you cross product 2d vectors?
7. What is rectangular parallelepiped?
8. What is scalar triple product?
9. What does dot product represent?
10. Can you dot a scalar with a vector?

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