Tensor vs Vector - What's the difference?
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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.,
(mathematics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
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(mathematics) An ordered tuple representing a directed quantity or the (soplink) between two points.
(mathematics) Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
(aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
(senseid)(epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
(sociology) A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
(psychology) A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
The way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text. The trail that a book cover can encourage the eyes to follow from certain objects to others.
(computing, operating systems) A memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereferenced]] and [[jump, jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.
(programming) A one-dimensional array.
To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
* 1994 , Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies
As nouns the difference between tensor and vector
is that tensor is a muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense while vector is a directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.As verbs the difference between tensor and vector
is that tensor is to compute the tensor product of two tensors while vector is to set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.As an adjective tensor
is of or relating to tensors.tensor
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(wikipedia tensor)Adjective
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(en noun)"Tensor", Wolfram MathWorld.
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* ----vector
Noun
(en noun)- The vectors in are the single-variable polynomials with rational coefficients: one is .
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* (programming) The term is used loosely when the indices are not (either positive or non-negative) integers.Hypernyms
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(en verb)- if love is vectored toward an object and Elinor's here flies toward Marianne, Marianne's in turn toward Willoughby.