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Capable of extension; ductile; tensible.

Made tensile.

The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles.

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.

Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension.

The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.

Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.

A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.

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.

Tension.

A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.

Attention; regard, care.

Intention; design.

To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.