These terms are usually used in the world of computing to describe disk space, or data storage space, and system memory. For instance, just a few years ago we were describing hard drive space using the term Megabytes. Today, Gigabytes is the most common term being used to describe the size of a hard drive.
The precise form of the transformation law determines the type (or valence) of the tensor. The tensor type is a pair of natural numbers (n, m), where n is the number of contravariant indices and m is the number of covariant indices.
tensor (ËtÉnsÉ; -sÉË) n 1. (Anatomy) anatomy any muscle that can cause a part to become firm or tense 2. (Mathematics) maths a set of components, functions of the coordinates of any point in space, that transform linearly between coordinate systems.