| Tense |
n. |
One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time. |
| Tense |
a. |
Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber. |
| Tensibility |
n. |
The quality or state of being tensible; tensility. |
| Tensible |
a. |
Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible. |
| Tensile |
a. |
Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength. |
| Tensile |
a. |
Capable of extension; ductile; tensible. |
| Tensiled |
a. |
Made tensile. |
| Tensility |
n. |
The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles. |
| tension |
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The pressure or tension of a confined body of vapor. The pressure of a given saturated vapor is a function of the temperature only, and may be measured by introducing a small quantity of the substance into a barometer and noting the depression of the column of mercury. |
| Tension |
a. |
The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx. |
| Tension |
a. |
Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort. |
| Tension |
a. |
The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain. |
| Tension |
a. |
The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight. |
| Tension |
a. |
A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness. |
| Tension |
a. |
Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air. |
| Tension |
a. |
The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area. |
| Tensioned |
a. |
Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension. |
| Tensity |
n. |
The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness. |
| Tensive |
a. |
Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction. |
| Tensor |
n. |
A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense. |
| Tensor |
n. |
The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors;
so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor. |
| Tensure |
n. |
Tension. |
