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, for instance, has backstopped some data centers for Anthropic, in part to increase sales of its in-house AI chips, known as tensor processing units.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Shares have more than doubled over the past year, driven higher by excitement about Google’s Gemini chatbot and custom tensor processing unit chips.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
The tech giant has co-developed its tensor processing units with Broadcom for more than a decade, but has reportedly been looking to work with the Taiwanese chip designer on future generations.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
The two companies have worked together for more than a decade on Google’s tensor processing units.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
“Yeah! Susie herself. That robot’s a mathematical wiz. He knows all about everything plus a bit on the side. He does triple integrals in his head and eats up tensor analysis for dessert.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
By developing a geometric framework based on tensor alignment, Fang discovered that the direction of energy transfer depends on how these tensors interact.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026
Existing approaches often limit the locations of nonzero values by enforcing a sparsity pattern to simplify the search, but this limits the variety of sparse tensors that can be processed efficiently.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2023
Both of the new methods seek to efficiently exploit what's known as sparsity -- zero values -- in the tensors.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2023
Running the simulation then reduced to, essentially, multiplying all the tensors.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 2, 2022
He has succeeded in proving experimentally the concept of tensors.
From The Einstein See-Saw by Breuer, Miles John
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