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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ten•sor (ten′sər, -sôr),USA pronunciation n. - Anatomya muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- Mathematicsa mathematical entity with components that change in a particular way in a transformation from one coordinate system to another.
- Neo-Latin: stretcher, equivalent. to Latin tend(ere) to stretch (see tend1) + -tor -tor, with dt s
- 1695–1705;
ten•so•ri•al (ten sôr′ē əl, -sōr′-),USA pronunciation adj. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: tensor /ˈtɛnsə -sɔː/ n - any muscle that can cause a part to become firm or tense
- a set of components, functions of the coordinates of any point in space, that transform linearly between coordinate systems. For three-dimensional space there are 3r components, where r is the rank. A tensor of zero rank is a scalar, of rank one, a vector
Etymology: 18th Century: from New Latin, literally: a stretchertensorial /tɛnˈsɔːrɪəl/ adj |