ALL meanings of tensor
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T t - noun tensor Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body. 1
- noun tensor Mathematics. a mathematical entity with components that change in a particular way in a transformation from one coordinate system to another. 1
- noun tensor any muscle that can cause a part to become firm or tense 0
- noun tensor 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 0
- noun tensor any muscle that stretches, or tenses, some part of the body 0
- noun tensor an abstract object representing a generalization of the vector concept and having a specified system of components that undergo certain types of transformation under changes of the coordinate system 0
- noun tensor A tensor is a quantity, for example a stress or a strain, which has magnitude, direction, and a plane in which it acts. 0