What is a tensor?
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Tensor
/ˈtɛn.sə/
Synonyms for "tensor" (14 found)
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More general
6 entriesMore specific
10 entriesRiemann curvature tensorcontravariant tensorcontravariant tensor fieldcovariant tensorcovariant tensor fieldelectromagnetic field tensormixed tensormixed tensor fieldrank two tensorstress energy tensor
Collocations
6 entriescontravariant tensorcovariant tensorrank two tensorstress energy tensortensor fieldtensor product
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
15 translations across 14 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مُوتَر noun (matrix of matrices)
Bulgarian
1 entries- тензор noun (matrix of matrices)
Finnish
1 entries- tensori noun (matrix of matrices)
German
1 entries- Tensor noun (matrix of matrices)
Greek
1 entries- τανυστής noun (matrix of matrices)
Italian
1 entries- tensore noun (matrix of matrices)
Kazakh
1 entries- тензор noun (matrix of matrices)
Norwegian
1 entries- tensor noun (matrix of matrices)
Polish
1 entries- tensor noun (matrix of matrices)
Russian
1 entries- те́нзор noun (matrix of matrices)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- tenzor noun (matrix of matrices)
Swedish
1 entries- tensor noun (matrix of matrices)
Tagalog
2 entries- katuganhan noun (matrix of matrices)
- katuganuhan noun (matrix of matrices)
Turkish
1 entries- tensör noun (matrix of matrices)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
In a spacetime, the Riemann curvature tensor has 256 components, but fortunately they don't all have to be directly calculated thanks to some symmetries.
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The tensor #92;alpha#95;#123;ij#125; should really be called a “tensor of second rank,” because it has two indexes. A vector—with one index—is a tensor of the first rank, and a scalar—with no index—is a tensor of zero rank.
Source: wiktionary