tension

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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.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

tensile

Descendants edit

→ Japanese: テンション (tenshon, “excitement”)
- → Korean: 텐션 (tensyeon)

Translations edit

condition of being held in a state between two or more forces

Bulgarian: опъване (bg) (opǎvane), разтягане (bg) n (raztjagane)
Esperanto: tensio

psychological state

Arabic: تَوَتُّر m (tawattur)
Armenian: լարում (hy) (larum)
Bulgarian: безпокойство (bg) n (bezpokojstvo)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 緊張／紧张 (zh) (jǐnzhāng), 不安 (zh) (bù'ān)
Czech: napětí (cs) n
Danish: spænding (da) c
Dutch: spanning (nl) f
Esperanto: streĉo
Finnish: jännitys (fi)
French: tension (fr)
Georgian: დაძაბულობა (daʒabuloba)
German: Spannung (de) f
Greek:
Ancient Greek: συντονία f (suntonía)
Hebrew: מתח (he) (métakh)
Hungarian: feszültség (hu)
Ido: tenso (io), tenseso (io)
Italian: tensione (it) f
Japanese: 緊張 (ja) (きんちょう, kinchō), 不安 (ja) (ふあん, fuan)
Korean: 긴장 (ko) (ginjang), 불안 (ko) (buran)
Latin: intentiō f
Maori: tanuku
Norwegian:
Bokmål: spenning (no) m or f

Nynorsk: spenning f
Persian: تنش (fa)
Portuguese: tensão (pt) f
Romanian: tensiune (ro) f, încordare (ro) f
Russian: напряжённость (ru) f (naprjažónnostʹ), напряже́ние (ru) n (naprjažénije), натя́нутость (ru) f (natjánutostʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: sàrachadh m
Spanish: tensión (es) f
Swedish: spänning (sv) c

state of an elastic object

Chinese:
Mandarin: 張力／张力 (zh) (zhānglì)
Danish: spænding (da) c
Dutch: gespannen (nl)
Esperanto: tensio
Finnish: jännitys (fi)
French: tension (fr) f, traction (fr) f
Georgian: გაჭიმვა (gač̣imva), ჭიმვა (č̣imva)
German: Spannung (de) f
Ido: tenso (io), tenseso (io)
Italian: tensione (it) f
Japanese: 張力 (ja) (ちょうりょく, chōryoku)
Korean: 장력 (ko) (jangnyeok)
Latin: tēnsiō f
Maori: renarena
Portuguese: tensão (pt) f
Romanian: tensiune (ro) f, încordare (ro) f
Russian: натяже́ние (ru) n (natjažénije), растяже́ние (ru) n (rastjažénije)
Spanish: tensión (es) f
Tagalog: binit

voltage

Arabic: جُهْد m (juhd), فُولْتِيَّة f (voltiyya)
Bulgarian: напрежение (bg) n (napreženie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 電壓／电压 (zh) (diànyā)
Czech: napětí (cs) n
Danish: spænding (da) c
Dutch: spanning (nl) f
Esperanto: tensio
Finnish: jännite (fi)
French: tension (fr) f
German: Spannung (de) f
Hebrew: מתח (he) (métakh)
Italian: tensione (it) f
Japanese: 電圧 (ja) (でんあつ, den'atsu)
Korean: 전압 (ko) (jeonap)
Latvian: spriegums m
Portuguese: tensão (pt) f
Romanian: tensiune (ro) f
Russian: напряже́ние (ru) n (naprjažénije)
Spanish: tensión (es) f

Verb edit

tension (third-person singular simple present tensions, present participle tensioning, simple past and past participle tensioned)