Tension vs Tenseness - What's the difference?
tension | tenseness |
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.
To place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on.
The characteristic of being tense.
(phonetics) A particular vowel or consonant quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English.
As nouns the difference between tension and tenseness
is that tension is condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other while tenseness is the characteristic of being tense.As a verb tension
is to place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on.tension
English
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(en noun)Verb
- We tensioned the cable until it snapped.