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Tensor
WordNet
noun
(1) Any of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm
(2) A generalization of the concept of a vector
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
- the image of a tuple under a tensor product map
- a function of several variables which is a product of a number of functions of one variable, one for each variable, each of which is linear in that variable
- a matrix of matrices