tensor

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɛn.sə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɛn.sɔː/
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• General-American: /ˈtɛn.sɚ/
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• General-American: /ˈtɛn.sɔɹ/
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• rhymes with -ɛnsə(ɹ)
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Borrowed from New Latin tensor (“that which stretches”), equivalent to tense + -or. Anatomical sense from 1704. Introduced in the 1840s by William Rowan Hamilton as an algebraic quantity unrelated to the modern notion of tensor. The contemporary mathematical meaning was introduced (as German Tensor) by Woldemar Voigt (1898) and adopted in English from 1915 (in the context of general relativity), obscuring the earlier Hamiltonian sense. The mathematical object is so named because an early application of tensors was the study of materials stretching under tension. (See, for example, Cauchy stress tensor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: флексор (fleksor) — muscle
• Chinese Mandarin: 張肌 /张肌 (zhāngjī) — muscle
• Finnish: jännittäjälihas — muscle
• Italian: tensore — muscle
• Polish: napinacz — muscle
• Tagalog: kalamnang pamatak — muscle
• Bulgarian: тензор (tenzor) — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Czech: tenzor — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Esperanto: tensoro — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Finnish: tensori — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• German: Tensor — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Hindi: प्रदिश (pradiś) — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Icelandic: þinur — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Italian: tensore — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Norwegian: tensor — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Polish: tensor — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Romanian: tensor — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Serbo-Croatian: tenzor — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Swedish: tensor — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Tagalog: katuganhan — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Tagalog: katuganuhan — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Turkish: tensör — image of a tuple under a tensor product map
• Arabic: مُوتَر (mūtar) — function of several variables
• Bulgarian: тензор (tenzor) — function of several variables
• Chinese Cantonese: 張量 /张量 (zoeng1 loeng6) — function of several variables
• Chinese Mandarin: 張量 /张量 (zhāngliàng) — function of several variables
• Finnish: tensori — function of several variables
• French: tenseur — function of several variables
• German: Tensor — function of several variables
• Ido: tensoro — function of several variables
• Italian: tensore — function of several variables
• Kazakh: тензор (tenzor) — function of several variables
• Norwegian: tensor — function of several variables
• Polish: tensor — function of several variables
• Russian: те́нзор (ténzor) — function of several variables
• Serbo-Croatian: tenzor — function of several variables
• Swedish: tensor — function of several variables
• Tagalog: katuganhan — function of several variables
• Tagalog: katuganuhan — function of several variables
• Turkish: tensör — function of several variables
• Arabic: مُوتَر (mūtar) — matrix of matrices
• Bulgarian: тензор (tenzor) — matrix of matrices
• Finnish: tensori — matrix of matrices
• German: Tensor — matrix of matrices
• Greek: τανυστής (tanystís) — matrix of matrices
• Italian: tensore — matrix of matrices
• Kazakh: тензор (tenzor) — matrix of matrices
• Norwegian: tensor — matrix of matrices
• Polish: tensor — matrix of matrices
• Russian: те́нзор (ténzor) — matrix of matrices
• Serbo-Croatian: tenzor — matrix of matrices
• Swedish: tensor — matrix of matrices
• Tagalog: katuganhan — matrix of matrices
• Tagalog: katuganuhan — matrix of matrices
• Turkish: tensör — matrix of matrices