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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?ns?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?ns?/
• Homophones: censer, sensor
• Rhymes: -?ns?(?)
• Hyphenation: cens?or

Etymology 1

The noun is borrowed from Latin c?nsor (“magistrate; critic”), from c?nse? (“to give an opinion, judge; to assess, reckon; to decree, determine”) + -sor (variant of -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns)). C?nse? is derived from Proto-Italic *kens??, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?ens- (“to announce, proclaim; to put in order”). The English word is cognate with Late Middle English sensour, Proto-Iranian *cánhati (“to declare; to explain”), Sanskrit ????? (?a?sati, “to declare”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

censor (plural censors)

1. (Ancient Rome, historical) One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality.

   Synonyms: censorian, (both obsolete) censurer
2. (Ancient China, historical) A high-ranking official who was responsible for the supervision of subordinate government officials.
3. An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media.

   Synonym: (obsolete) censurer
4. (education) A college or university official whose duties vary depending on the institution.
5. (obsolete) One who censures or condemns.

   Synonym: censurer

Usage notes

Not to be confused with censer (“container for burning incense; person who perfumes with incense”) or censure (“act of condemning as wrong; official reprimand”).

Alternative forms

• censour (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

censor (third-person singular simple present censors, present participle censoring, simple past and past participle censored)

1. (transitive) To review for, and if necessary to remove or suppress, content from books, films, correspondence, and other media which is regarded as objectionable (for example, obscene, likely to incite violence, or sensitive).

   Synonyms: bowdlerize, expurgate, expunge, redact

   Antonym: decensor

Translations

Etymology 2

From an incorrect translation of German Zensur (“censorship”).

Noun

censor (plural censors)

1. (psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious mind.

Translations

References

Further reading

• censorship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Roman censor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• censor (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• censor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• censor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Cerons, Cosner, Crones, Oncers, crones, crosne, necros, oncers, recons, scorne, sercon

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?n?so/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sen?so?/

• Homophone: sensor

Noun

censor m (plural censors, feminine censora)

1. censor

Related terms

• censura
• censurar

Further reading

• “censor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin censor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n.z?r/
• Hyphenation: cen?sor
• Rhymes: -?nz?r
• Homophone: sensor

Noun

censor m (plural censors, diminutive censortje n)

1. censor

Related terms

• censureren
• census
• censuur

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: sensor (“censor”)

Latin

Etymology

From c?nse? (“I assess, value, judge, tax, etc.”) +? -tor (agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ken.sor/, [?k??s??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??en.sor/, [?t???ns?r]

Noun

c?nsor m (genitive c?ns?ris); third declension

1. censor
2. provincial magistrate with similar duties.
3. a critic, especially a severe one of morals and society

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• c?nsitor
• c?ns?rius
• c?ns?ra

Descendants

References

• censor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• censor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• censor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• censor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• censor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• censor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?nsor.

Pronunciation

Adjective

censor m (feminine singular censora, masculine plural censores, feminine plural censoras, comparable)

1. censoring

   Synonym: censurador

Noun

censor m (plural censores, feminine censora, feminine plural censoras)

1. (historical) censor (Roman magistrate)
2. censor (official responsible for removal of objectionable or sensitive content)
3. censor, censurer (one who censures or condemns)

   Synonyms: censurador, censuradora

Related terms

• censura f
• censurar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?nsor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?en?so?/, [??n?so?]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /sen?so?/, [s?n?so?]

Adjective

censor (feminine censora, masculine plural censores, feminine plural censoras)

1. censoring

   Synonyms: censurador, censuradora

Noun

censor m (plural censores, feminine censora, feminine plural censoras)

1. (historical) censor (Roman magistrate)
2. censor, censurer (one who censures or condemns)

   Synonyms: censurador, censuradora

3. censor (a census administrator)

Related terms

• censura f
• censurar

Further reading

• “censor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

censor c

1. (classical studies) censor; a Roman census administrator
2. censor; an official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content

Declension

Related terms

• censur

See also

• sensor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin tensor (“that which stretches”), equivalent to tense +? -or. Anatomical sense from 1704.Introduced in the 1840s by William Rowan Hamilton as an algebraic quantity unrelated to the modern notion of tensor.The contemporary mathematical meaning was introduced (as German Tensor) by Woldemar Voigt (1898) and adopted in English from 1915 (in the context of general relativity), obscuring the earlier Hamiltonian sense. The mathematical object is so named because an early application of tensors was the study of materials stretching under tension. (See, for example, Cauchy stress tensor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?n.s?/, /?t?n.s??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?n.s?/, /?t?n.s??/
• Rhymes: -?ns?(?)

Noun

tensor (plural tensors or (muscle) tensores)

1. (anatomy) A muscle that tightens or stretches a part, or renders it tense. [from 17th c.]

   Hyponyms: tensor fasciae latae, tensor tympani, tensor veli palatini

2. (mathematics, linear algebra, physics) A mathematical object that describes linear relations on scalars, vectors, matrices and other algebraic objects, and is represented as a multidimensional array. [from 18th c.]

   Hypernym: function

   Hyponyms: duotensor, eigentensor, Faraday tensor, hypertensor, metric tensor, pseudotensor, subtensor, supertensor, vector, Weyl tensor, zero tensor

3. (mathematics, obsolete) A norm operation on the quaternion algebra.

Usage notes

(mathematics, linear algebra):

• The array's dimensionality (number of indices needed to label a component) is called its order (also degree or rank).
• Tensors operate in the context of a vector space and thus within a choice of basis vectors, but, because they express relationships between vectors, must be independent of any given choice of basis. This independence takes the form of a law of covariant and/or contravariant transformation that relates the arrays computed in different bases. 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 the number of covariant indices. The total order of the tensor is the sum n + m.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tensor (third-person singular simple present tensors, present participle tensoring, simple past and past participle tensored)

1. To compute the tensor product of two tensors.

References

• “tensor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “tensor”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• -setron, Nestor, Nortes, Reston, Sterno, Stoner, Trones, noters, sterno-, stoner, tenors, toners, trones

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately or directly from Latin tensor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?n.z?r/, /?t?n.s?r/
• Hyphenation: ten?sor
• Rhymes: -?nz?r

Noun

tensor m (plural tensoren)

1. (mathematics, linear algebra) tensor

Derived terms

• tensoralgebra

Latin

Etymology

From tend? (“stretch, distend, extend”) +? -tor (agent suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ten.sor/, [?t???s??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ten.sor/, [?t??ns?r]

Noun

tensor m (genitive tens?ris); third declension (New Latin)

1. that which stretches

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: tensor

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??.s?r/

Noun

tensor m inan

1. (mathematics) tensor

Declension

Derived terms

• tensorowy

Spanish

Adjective

tensor (feminine tensora, masculine plural tensores, feminine plural tensoras)

1. tensing; tensile

Noun

tensor m (plural tensores)

1. tensor

Derived terms

Swedish

Noun

tensor c

1. (mathematics) tensor; a function which is linear in all variables

Declension

Anagrams

• noters, ortens, rosten, rotens, sorten, toners