tensor
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tensors
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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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For analysts at Morgan Stanley, headed by Joseph Moore, Broadcom’s results were “impressive,” but they highlighted some challenges for the stock, including worries over the company’s market share in the tensor processing unit sector.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
The search giant had been codeveloping customized AI chips, called tensor processing units, with Broadcom for some time before AI took off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The Texas deal is notable in part because Hut 8 is separately developing data centers for Anthropic that will house Google’s tensor processing units, which compete with Nvidia’s chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The researchers overcame this barrier by developing and applying new tools based on tensor networks.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
He was sitting on his bed, wrapping his damaged leg in a tensor bandage.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
His approach relied on tensors, mathematical objects commonly used to describe quantities such as stress and deformation.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026
Both methods boost the performance and reduce the energy demands of hardware accelerators specifically designed to speed up the processing of sparse tensors.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2023
In the future, she and her collaborators want to apply hierarchical structured sparsity to more types of machine-learning models and different types of tensors in the models.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2023
Running the simulation then reduced to, essentially, multiplying all the tensors.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 2, 2022
"These little lurches that we feel must be the snapping back of the space-puckers as expressed by tensors," Ione remarked.
From The Einstein See-Saw by Miles John Breuer
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