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Flexor vs Tensor - What's the difference?

flexor | tensor |

As nouns the difference between flexor and tensor

is that flexor is a muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb while tensor is a muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.

As an adjective tensor is

of or relating to tensors.

As a verb tensor is

to compute the tensor product of two tensors.

flexor

English

(wikipedia flexor)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy) A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
  • * 2004 , Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual
    • Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.

    See also

    * biceps * extensor

    tensor

    English

    (wikipedia tensor)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to tensors

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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., "Tensor", Wolfram MathWorld.

    • Hypernyms

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    Hyponyms

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    Derived terms

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    References

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compute the tensor product of two tensors.

    • Related terms

    * tensorial

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