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- adjective mathematics Of or pertaining to a
tensor
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(GμÎ-, the Einstein tensor) built up from the uniquely compatible linear symmetric ( "Levi-Civita") connection associated with the metric tensor gμÎ-, and representing the curvature of spacetime, is set identical to a tensorial but non-geometrical phenomenological representation of matter on the right-hand side.
Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity Ryckman, Thomas A. 2006
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"It should be apparent even to your feeble intelligence that after your fiasco, your inexcusable negligence in not reporting even the most elementary vectorial-tensorial analysis of that extremely important phenomenon, someone with a brain should ..."
Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950
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If you can imagine a body force that, somehow, happens to have a tensorial nature -- not vectorial -- then we could arrange to have that force distributed in such a manner that a state of strain would not necessarily imply a state of stress.
iMechanica - Comments infinique 2009
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