tension
IPA: tˈɛnʃʌn
noun
- 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.
verb
- To place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on.
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Examples of "tension" in Sentences
- The city is sundered by racial tension.
- It's about the tension and emotion of the movie.
- The campaign was beset by tensions and scuffles.
- Racial tension is one of the themes of the film.
- Also the tension of the mattress adds to this too.
- The atmosphere was drenched in anxiety and tension.
- Capillarity is another consequence of surface tension.
- But the surface tension constrains the shape of the puddle.
- Only at the end of the utterance, this tension is released.
- A tensioning device adjusts the tensile stress in the strand.
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