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Definition of Tension

Tension 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. 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. Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort. 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. 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. A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness. 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. 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. Related Definitions: Act, Air, An, And, Any, Area, As, Barometer, Be, Being, Bent, Body, By, Charge, Checking, Column, Confined, Consequence, Cord, Degree, Delivery, Depression, Device, Direction, Discharge, Drawing, Each, Effort, Elastic, Elasticity, Electric, Electrical, Electricity, Equilibrium, Excitement, Expansive, Extreme, Feeling, Fig, For, Force, Forming, From, Function, Gas, Give, Given, In, Intense, Into, Introducing, Is, It, Itself, Larynx, Length, Less, Like, Machine, May, Measured, Mercury, Mind, Motion, Noting, Occupy, Of, One, Only, Or, Other, Part, Pass, Piece, Potential, Pressure, Pulled, Quality, Quantity, Recede, Required, Saturated, Sewing, Small, So, Space, Spark, State, Stiffness, Stitch, Strain, Strained, Straining, Stretched, Stretching, Substance, Supporting, System, Temperature, Tend, Tension, That, The, Thread, Tightness, Timber, To, Upon, Vapor, Weight, When, Which, Wire, With

Tension Quotations The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. Ralph Waldo Emerson The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. Henry David Thoreau Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group. Harold Evans I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. H. L. Mencken We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tension Translations tension in Afrikaans is spanning tension in Dutch is spanning tension in French is tension tension in German is Spannung tension in Italian is voltaggio

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