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Meaning:
Noun:
- 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. 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.
- Psychological state of being tense.
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Verb:
- To place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on.
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