tensor
/ˈtɛn.sə/US/ˈtɛn.sɚ/
tensor noun: a muscle that tightens or stretches a part, or renders it tense.
Noun
tensor (plural tensors or (muscle) tensores)
- A muscle that tightens or stretches a part, or renders it tense.
- A mathematical object that describes linear relations on scalars, vectors, matrices and other algebraic objects, and is represented as a multidimensional array.
- The tensor #92;alpha#95;#123;ij#125; should really be called a “tensor of second rank,” because it has two indexes. A vector—with one index—is a tensor of the first rank, and a scalar—with no index—is a tensor of zero rank.1963, Richard Feynman, “Chapter 31, Tensors”, in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume II
- A multidimensional array with (at least) two dimensions.
- A norm operation on the quaternion algebra.
Verb
tensor (third-person singular simple present tensors, present participle tensoring, simple past and past participle tensored)
- To compute the tensor product of two tensors or algebraic structures.
tensor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tensor in Hindi
- image of a tuple under a tensor product map
- प्रदिश pradiś
tensor in Tamil
- பண்பன், பண்புரு, நீட்டுத்தசை, விறைப்பி
tensor in Marathi
- टेन्सर, टेंसर, टेनसर
tensor in Urdu
- ٹینسر, ٹینسور
More languagesFewer languages
- tensor in Bengali
- টেনসর, টেন্সর, টেন্সার
- tensor in Telugu
- టెన్సర్, టెన్సార్, టెన్సోర్
- tensor in Malayalam
- ടെൻസർ, ടെൻസോർ, ടേൻസർ
- tensor in Kannada
- ಟೆನ್ಸರ್
- tensor in Punjabi
- ਟੈਂਸਰ, ਟੈਨਸਰ, ਟੈਨ੍ਸਰ
- tensor in Gujarati
- ટેન્સર, ટેનસર, ટેંસર
- tensor in Odia
- ଟେନ୍ସର, ଟେନସର, ଟେନ୍ସର୍
- tensor in Nepali
- टेन्सर, टेनसर, टेन्सरलाई
- tensor in Tagalog
- katuganhan, katuganuhan, kalamnang pamatak
- tensor in Arabic
- مُوتَر mūtar
Examples of tensor in a sentence
- Tensor products of copies of the natural and the conatural representations are injective objects in this category.
- The absolute differential calculus is also known as tensor calculus or Ricci calculus.
- The backward() function uses PyTorch's automatic differentiation package, torch.autograd, to differentiate and compute gradients of tensors based on the chain rule.
Forms of tensor
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tensors |
| plural | tensores |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tensors |
| present participle | tensoring |
| past participle | tensored |
| past | tensored |
Origin of tensor
Borrowed from New Latin tensor (“that which stretches”), equivalent to tense + -or. Anatomical sense from 1704. Introduced in the 1840s 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) 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. (See, for example, Cauchy stress tensor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
Words formed from tensor
- bitensor
- tensor algebra
- tensor field
- tensorial
- tensor operator
- tensor product
- tonic tensor tympani syndrome
Phrases with tensor
Words that rhyme with tensor
- spencer
- censor
- condenser
- fencer
- censer
- hypertensor
- eigentensor
- extensor
- flenser
- pseudotensor
- senser
- sensor
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Questions about tensor
- What does tensor mean?
- Tensor means a muscle that tightens or stretches a part, or renders it tense.
- What is tensor in Hindi?
- Tensor in Hindi is प्रदिश (pradiś). See Tensor meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tensor?
- Tensor can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tensor?
- Tensor is pronounced /ˈtɛn.sə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tensor?
- The plural of tensor is tensors.
Words near tensor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tensor (page history and authors); tensor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tensor (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tensor (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tensor (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tensor (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tensor (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tensor (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tensor (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tensor (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tensor (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tensor (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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