tenseur
French, noun\tɑ̃.sœʁ\
tenseur is spelled T-E-N-S-E-U-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 62,878th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tenseur is a French masculine noun meaning “tensor (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Élément de l’algèbre tensorielle d’un espace vectoriel”.
What does tenseur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetensor (all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui tend, qui provoque une tension. 2. Muscle qui produit la tension d’une structure anatomique. → voir extenseur
noun: 1. Élément de l’algèbre tensorielle d’un espace vectoriel. 2. Représentation de l’état de contrainte et de déformation que subit un solide lorsqu’il est soumis à des forces et des moments : → voir tenseur des contraintes et tenseur des déformations.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tenseur
- tenseurs plural
- tenseuse singular feminine
- tenseuses plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tenseur?
- \tɑ̃.sœʁ\
- [tɑ̃.sœʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tenseur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tenseur in French?
tenseur appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).