Dyad vs Tensor - What's the difference?
dyad | tensor |
A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
* {{quote-book, year=1908, author=W. D. Ross, title=, by=Aristotle
, passage=... positing a dyad and constructing the infinite out of great and small, instead of treating the infinite as one, is peculiar to him; ...}}
(music) any set of two different pitch classes.
A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation.
* "For each individual in a specific dyad (i.e., mother-offspring, offspring-father, sibling-sibling),..." Debra Lieberman, John Tooby, and Leda Cosmides - The evolution of human incest avoidance mechanisms: an evolutionary psychological approach , p. 20
(chemistry) An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.
Of or relating to tensors
A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
(mathematics, physics) An image of a tuple under a tensor product map.
(mathematics, physics) A function of several variables
(mathematics, physics) A mathematical object consisting of a set of components with n'' indices each of which range from 1 to ''m'' where ''n'' is the rank and ''m is the dimension of the tensor.Rowland, Todd and Weisstein, Eric W.,
As nouns the difference between dyad and tensor
is that dyad is a set of two elements treated as one; a pair while tensor is tensor.dyad
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* dyadicSee also
* monad * pair * triad * interval * trichord * hexachord * tetrachordAnagrams
* *tensor
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(wikipedia tensor)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)"Tensor", Wolfram MathWorld.