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Pullout vs Tension - What's the difference?

pullout | tension |

As nouns the difference between pullout and tension

is that pullout is a withdrawal, especially of armed forces while tension is tension.

pullout

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A withdrawal, especially of armed forces
  • The change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level flight
  • An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else

    • See also

    *pull out

    tension

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other
  • Psychological state of being tense.
  • (physics, engineering) State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
  • (physics, engineering) Force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on'', ''in'', or ''of , e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
  • (physics, engineering) 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.

    • Related terms

    * tensional * tensile

    Verb

  • To place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on.
    • We tensioned the cable until it snapped.

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