tensor
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Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
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Mathematics. a mathematical entity with components that change in a particular way in a transformation from one coordinate system to another.
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anatomy any muscle that can cause a part to become firm or tense
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maths 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 3 r components, where r is the rank. A tensor of zero rank is a scalar, of rank one, a vector
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A structure of quantities arranged by zero or more indices, such as a scalar (zero indices), a vector (one index), or a matrix (two indices), which is invariant under transformations of coordinates.
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Any of various muscles that stretch or tighten a body part, as the muscle that acts to tense the soft palate, called the tensor palati.
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Origin of tensor
1695–1705; < New Latin: stretcher, equivalent to Latin tend ( ere ) to stretch ( see tend 1) + -tor -tor, with dt > s
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Google will supply hardware—including its specialized chips known as Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs—as well as software and services to the venture.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Google developed an eighth generation of Tensor Processing Units, with one version customized for AI inference and another for training.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
Broadcom is the main partner in developing Google’s Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, the search company’s in-house AI chips.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
"Tensor network methods, however, offer a new standard of accuracy and efficiency against which other approaches can be benchmarked."
From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026
"Not like there used to be," Tensor admitted.
From Fair and Warmer by Wald, E. G. von
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