- 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
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ten•sor
(ten′sər, -sôr),USA pronunciation n.
ten•so•ri•al
(ten sôr′ē əl, -sōr′-),USA pronunciation adj.
- 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;
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tensor /ˈtɛnsə; -sɔː/ n
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