The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TENSOR
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What does TENSOR mean?
TENSOR noun- A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
- A mathematical object that describes linear relations on scalars, vectors, matrices and other tensors, and is represented as a multidimensional array.
- A norm operation on the quaternion algebra.
- To compute the tensor product of two tensors.