tension
See also: tensión
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French tension, from Latin tensiō, tensiōnem.
Pronunciation
- enPR: tĕnʹ-shən, IPA(key): /ˈtɛnʃən/
- Rhymes: -ɛnʃən
- Hyphenation: ten‧sion
Noun
tension (countable and uncountable, plural tensions)
- 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.
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Translations
State of being held between two or more forces acting in opposition
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psychological state
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state of an elastic object
voltage
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Verb
tension (third-person singular simple present tensions, present participle tensioning, simple past and past participle tensioned)
Translations
Esperanto
French
Etymology
From Middle French tension, borrowed from Latin tensiō, tensiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/
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Noun
tension f (plural tensions)
- tension
- blood pressure
- chute de tension
- drop in blood pressure
- voltage
Related terms
Further reading
- “tension” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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