tensor vs variable quantity

tensor and variable quantity both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tensor	Yes	No	No	No
variable quantity	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, variable quantity is a hypernym of tensor; that is, variable quantity is a word with a broader meaning than tensor:

Other hypernyms of tensor include variable.

tensor (noun)	variable quantity (noun)
any of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm	a quantity that can assume any of a set of values
a generalization of the concept of a vector