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Webster 1913 Edition

Tensor

Ten′sor

,
Noun.
[NL. See
Tension
.]
1.
(Anat.)
A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
2.
(Geom.)
The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; – so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See
Versor
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tensor

TENS'OR

,
Noun.
In anatomy, a muscle that extends or stretches a part.

Definition 2024

Tensor

Tensor

See also: tensor and tensör

German

Noun

Tensor m

  1. (mathematics) tensor

Anagrams

tensor

tensor

See also: Tensor and tensör

English

Adjective

tensor ‎(not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to tensors

Translations

Noun

tensor ‎(plural tensors)

  1. (anatomy) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
  2. (mathematics, physics) A mathematical object describing linear relations (may be represented as a multidimensional array).[2]
  3. (mathematics) (obsolete) A norm operation on the quaternion algebra

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References

  1. ↑ W. Voigt, Die fundamentalen physikalischen Eigenschaften der Krystalle in elementarer Darstellung, Leipzig, Germany: Veit & Co., 1898, p. 20.
  2. ↑ Rowland, Todd and Weisstein, Eric W., "Tensor", Wolfram MathWorld.

Verb

tensor ‎(third-person singular simple present tensors, present participle tensoring, simple past and past participle tensored)

  1. To compute the tensor product of two tensors.

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Polish

Noun

tensor m inan

  1. (mathematics) tensor

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Spanish

Noun

tensor m ‎(plural tensores)

  1. tensor

Swedish

Noun

tensor c

  1. (mathematics) tensor; a function which is linear in all variables

Declension

Inflection of tensor 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tensor tensorn tensorer tensorerna
Genitive tensors tensorns tensorers tensorernas

Etymology

From New Latin tensor ‎(“that which stretches”). Anatomical sense from 1704. In the 1840s introduced by William Rowan Hamilton as an algebraic quantity unrelated to the modern notion of tensor. The contemporary mathematical meaning was introduced (as German Tensor) by Woldemar Voigt (1898)[1] and adopted in English from 1915 (in the context of General Relativity), obscuring the earlier Hamiltonian sense. The mathematical object is so named because an early application of tensors was the study of materials stretching under tension.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ten‧sor
  • Rhymes: -ɛnsə(ɹ)

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