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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In this case, the researchers modeled three-dimensional quantum dynamics with a 3D tensor network.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Tindall completed many of the first calculations on a laptop using ITensor, a high-performance tensor network software library created at the CCQ.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 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 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
His approach relied on tensors, mathematical objects commonly used to describe quantities such as stress and deformation.
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
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
He has succeeded in proving experimentally the concept of tensors.
From The Einstein See-Saw by Breuer, Miles John
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