tensioning: significado e definições

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O que é tensioning?

O que é tensioning?

  • The act or process of stretching something tight. The condition of so being stretched; tautness.
  • A force tending to stretch or elongate something. A measure of such a force: a tension on the cable of 50 pounds.
  • Mental, emotional, or nervous strain: working under great tension to make a deadline. Barely controlled hostility or a strained relationship between people or groups: the dangerous tension between opposing military powers.
  • A balanced relation between strongly opposing elements:"the continuing, and essential, tension between two of the three branches of government, judicial and legislative"(Haynes Johnson).
  • The interplay of conflicting elements in a piece of literature, especially a poem.
  • A device for regulating tautness, especially a device that controls the tautness of thread on a sewing machine or loom.
  • Electricity Voltage or potential; electromotive force.

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