tensor

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The resulting stress tensor is the superposition of the strain energy density and a transformation of the Cauchy stress.

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  1. noun Anatomy A muscle that stretches or tightens a body part.
  2. noun Mathematics A set of quantities that obey certain transformation laws relating the bases in one generalized coordinate system to those of another and involving partial derivative sums. Vectors are simple tensors.

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  • Short-distance expansion for the electromagnetic half-space Green's tensor: general results and an application to radiative lifetime computations —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • In this regime, the integral representation for the half-space Green's tensor is difficult to use while its electrostatic limiting expression is grossly inadequate. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Possible operations that can be performed on Result objects are, for example: ï¿­ Modification of the reference coordinate system, ï¿­ Calculation of total force and moment corresponding to a distribution of loads, ï¿­ Derivation of criteria like Von Mises for a stress tensor, the norm of a vector, ... ï¿­ Operations combining several results (sum, difference, product, merging of results ...), ï¿­ Derivation of new Results (for example, laminated Results) —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • We study the influence of the choice of template in tensor - based morphometry. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Using 3D brain MR images from 10 monozygotic twin pairs, we defined a tensor-based distance in the log-Euclidean framework [1] between each image pair in the study. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. New Latin tēnsor, from Latin tēnsus, past participle of tendere, to stretch; see tense1.

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  1. New Latin, from Latin tendere, past participle tensus, stretch: see tend, tense.
 

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/ˈtɛnsər/
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