Definitions | tension |
| noun
- psychological, Psychological state of being tense.
- Condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other
- (physics) (engineering) State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
- (physics) voltage, 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.
Translations: - French:
- German: Spannung
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Etymology: From tensionFrench, tension.
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