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tension
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French tension, from Latin tensi?, tensi?nem.
Pronunciation
- enPR: t?n?-sh?n, IPA(key): /?t?n??n/
- Rhymes: -?n??n
- Hyphenation: ten?sion
Noun
tension (countable and uncountable, plural tensions)
- The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
- Psychological state of being tense.
- A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense.
- (physics, engineering) State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
- (physics, engineering) Force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on, in, or of, e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
- (physics, engineering) Voltage. Usually only the terms low tension, high tension, and extra-high tension, and the abbreviations LT, HT, and EHT are used. They are not precisely defined; LT is normally a few volts, HT a few hundreds of volts, and EHT thousands of volts.
Derived terms
Related terms
- tensile
Translations
Verb
tension (third-person singular simple present tensions, present participle tensioning, simple past and past participle tensioned)
- To place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on.
Translations
Anagrams
- Sonnite, intones, neonist, noneist, sention
Esperanto
Noun
tension
- accusative singular of tensio
Finnish
Noun
tension
- Genitive singular form of tensio.
Anagrams
- onnesti
French
Etymology
From Middle French tension, borrowed from Latin tensi?, tensi?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??.sj??/
Noun
tension f (plural tensions)
- tension
- blood pressure
- voltage
Derived terms
Related terms
- tendre
Descendants
- ? Romanian: tensiune
Further reading
- “tension” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- entions, tenions
Occitan
Pronunciation
Noun
tension f (plural tensions)
- tension
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tensin
English
Noun
tensin (countable and uncountable, plural tensins)
- (biochemistry) A multidomain protein that binds to actin filaments.
Anagrams
- innest, nestin, sennit, sinnet, tennis
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- what tension should i use for thin fabric
- what tension should i use for thick fabric
- what tension for tennis racket
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- what tension mean
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- what tensions led to ww1
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