tensor

noun/ˈtɛnsər/

Frequency rank: #12,713 most common English word

Meaning

A mathematical object that generalizes scalars, vectors, and matrices to higher dimensions, used extensively in physics and machine learning.

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Example sentence

In deep learning, each layer of the neural network processes data stored in tensor form.

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