tension
See also: tensión
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French tension, from Latin tēnsiō, tēnsiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: tĕnʹ-shən, IPA(key): /ˈtɛnʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnʃən
- Hyphenation: ten‧sion
Noun edit
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.
- My tensions with Eric over his alleged past actions have been fully resolved.
- 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.
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State of being held between two or more forces acting in opposition
psychological state
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state of an elastic object
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voltage
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Verb edit
tension (third-person singular simple present tensions, present participle tensioning, simple past and past participle tensioned)
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to place in tension
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tension
- accusative singular of tensio
Finnish edit
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tension
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French tension, borrowed from Latin tēnsiōnem.
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tension f (plural tensions)
- tension
- blood pressure
- chute de tension
- drop in blood pressure
- voltage
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Further reading edit
- “tension”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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tension f (plural tensions)