Usually means: Multidimensional array for mathematical operations.
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  1. tensor: Merriam-Webster
  2. tensor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tensor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tensor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tensor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tensor, tensor: Wordnik
  7. tensor: Wiktionary
  8. tensor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tensor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  11. tensor: Dictionary.com
  12. tensor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Tensor (disambiguation), Tensor (intrinsic definition), Tensor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Tensor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tensor: Rhymezone
  16. Tensor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. tensor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. tensor: FreeDictionary.org
  19. tensor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. tensor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. tensor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

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  1. tensor: Encyclopedia

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  1. tensor: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  5. tensor: Medical dictionary

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  1. Tensor: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
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  1. tensor: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tensor)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) A muscle that tightens or stretches a part, or renders it tense.
▸ noun:  (mathematics, linear algebra, physics) A mathematical object that describes linear relations on scalars, vectors, matrices and other algebraic objects, and is represented as a multidimensional array.
▸ noun:  (engineering) A multidimensional array with (at least) two dimensions.
▸ noun:  (mathematics, obsolete) A norm operation on the quaternion algebra.
▸ verb:  To compute the tensor product of two tensors or algebraic structures.

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tendon, musculotendon, constrictor, extensor, compressor, laxator, teres, eccentric contraction, temporal muscle, endotendon, more...

Opposite:
scalar, vector, matrix

Types:
Ricci tensor, Riemann tensor, Weyl tensor, more...

Phrases:
stress tensor, strain tensor, metric tensor, tensor product, tensor tympani, more...

Adjectives:
metric, symmetric, dielectric, rank, second, stress, order, antisymmetric, covariant, effective, elastic

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Similar:
tendon, musculotendon, constrictor, extensor, compressor, laxator, teres, eccentric contraction, temporal muscle, endotendon, more...

Opposite:
scalar, vector, matrix

Types:
Ricci tensor, Riemann tensor, Weyl tensor, more...

Phrases:
stress tensor, strain tensor, metric tensor, tensor product, tensor tympani, momentum tensor, symmetric tensor, Tensor field, curvature tensor, inertia tensor, tensor analysis, moment tensor, Tensor calculus, more...

Adjectives:
metric, symmetric, dielectric, rank, second, stress, order, antisymmetric, covariant, effective, elastic

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