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Tension

Portuguese Meaning

tensão

tração

ansiedade

retesamento

tensão nervosa

English Meaning

  1. The act or process of stretching something tight.
  2. The condition of so being stretched; tautness.
  3. A force tending to stretch or elongate something.
  4. A measure of such a force: a tension on the cable of 50 pounds.
  5. Mental, emotional, or nervous strain: working under great tension to make a deadline.
  6. Barely controlled hostility or a strained relationship between people or groups: the dangerous tension between opposing military powers.
  7. 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).
  8. The interplay of conflicting elements in a piece of literature, especially a poem.
  9. A device for regulating tautness, especially a device that controls the tautness of thread on a sewing machine or loom.
  10. Electricity Voltage or potential; electromotive force.
  11. To subject to tension; tighten.