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.
- bacter-
- bacteremia
- bacteremic
- bacteremically
- bacteri-
- bacteri-
- bacteria
- bacterial
- bacterial artificial chromosome
- bacterially
- bacterial vaginosis
- bactericidal
- bactericidally
- bactericide
- bacterin
- bacterio-
- bacteriochlorophyll
- bacteriocin
- bacteriogenic
- bacteriogenous
- bacteriologic
- bacteriological
- bacteriologically
- bacteriologist
- bacteriology