tensor
Americannoun
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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.
noun
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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.
Other Word Forms
- tensorial adjective
Etymology
Origin of tensor
1695–1705; < New Latin: stretcher, equivalent to Latin tend ( ere ) to stretch ( tend 1 ) + -tor -tor, with dt > s
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Alphabet’s full-stack AI strategy — from its custom tensor processing units to its Gemini frontier model — has impressed investors looking for a seemingly lower-risk way to play the AI trade.
From MarketWatch
And the chip maker is seeing growing competition from custom chip projects, such as Google’s tensor processing units that it uses to train and run its Gemini AI models.
From MarketWatch
“I do think Google’s self-sufficiency should command a premium relative to the others that could be adversely impacted by one cog in the wheel,” Treacy said, referring to Google’s proprietary tensor processing units.
From MarketWatch
From this revised framework, he introduces a "correction tensor" -- a mathematical tool that accounts for drag and resistance acting on particles of any shape, including spheres and thin discs.
From Science Daily
Both Klein and Post highlighted that Alphabet can uniquely recognize cost advantages through its AI spending via the use of its own custom chips, known as tensor processing units.
From MarketWatch
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