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Definition tensor

Etymology

From New Latin tensor (“that which stretches”). Anatomical sense from 1704. In the 1840s introduced 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.

Noun

tensor (plural tensors)

1. (anatomy) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
2. (mathematics, linear algebra, physics) A mathematical object that describes linear relations on scalars, vectors, matrices and other tensors, and is represented as a multidimensional array.
3. (mathematics, obsolete) A norm operation on the quaternion algebra.

Verb

tensor (third-person singular simple present tensors, present participle tensoring, simple past and past participle tensored)

1. To compute the tensor product of two tensors.

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