tensor
A muscle that tightens or stretches a part, or renders it tenseA muscle that tightens or stretches a part, or renders it tense.
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Meaning
4 sensesA muscle that tightens or stretches a part, or renders it tense.
A mathematical object that describes linear relations on scalars, vectors, matrices and other algebraic objects, and is represented as a multidimensional array.
Tensor
те́нзорténzor
A mathematical object that describes linear relations on scalars, vectors, matrices and other algebraic objects, and is represented as a multidimensional array.
A multidimensional array with (at least) two dimensions.
(obsolete)A norm operation on the quaternion algebra.
Tensor, Tensor
те́нзорténzor
- any of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm
- a generalization of the concept of a vector
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Origin
Borrowed from New Latin tensor (“that which stretches”), equivalent to tense + -or. AnatomBorrowed from New Latin tensor (“that which stretches”), equivalent to tense + -or. Anatomical sense from 1704.
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