ten·sor 
(tĕnsər, -sôr′)
(tĕnsər, -sôr′)n.
1. Anatomy A muscle that stretches or tightens a body part.
2. Mathematics A set of quantities that obey certain transformation laws relating the bases in one generalized coordinate system to those of another and involving partial derivative sums. Vectors are simple tensors.
[New Latin tēnsor, from Latin tēnsus, past participle of tendere, to stretch; see TENSE1.]
ten·sori·al (-sôrē-əl) adj.
- Chinese character
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- Chinese crested
- Chinese date
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- Chinese fire drill
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- Chinese lantern
- Chinese parsley
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- Chinese red
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- Chinese wall
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- Ch'ing
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- Chinglish
- chink