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Let 
 be an 
-D linear Space over a Field 
, and let 
 be a Quadratic Form on 
. A Clifford
algebra is then defined over the 
, where 
 is the tensor algebra over 
 and 
 is a particular
Ideal of 
.
References
Iyanaga, S. and Kawada, Y. (Eds.).  ``Clifford Algebras.''  §64 in
  Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 220-222, 1980.
 
Lounesto, P. ``Counterexamples to Theorems Published and Proved in Recent Literature on Clifford Algebras, Spinors,
  Spin Groups, and the Exterior Algebra.''
  http://www.hit.fi/~lounesto/counterexamples.htm.