Synonym: latent hostility, stress, tautness, tenseness, tensity. Similar words: extension, pension, dimension, dimensions, comprehension, extensive, intensity, mansion. Meaning: ['tenʃn] 
n. 1. feelings of hostility that are not manifest 2. (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense 3. the physical condition of being stretched or strained 4. a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature) 5. (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body 6. the action of stretching something tight.
n. 1. feelings of hostility that are not manifest 2. (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense 3. the physical condition of being stretched or strained 4. a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature) 5. (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body 6. the action of stretching something tight. 
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211. Increased apprehension in such a difficult situation increased tension. 3.
212. Yet Daley remained outwardly serene, sometimes buoyant, while all around him the tension was building.
213. That is, you have to imitate the main carriage knitting at Main Tension plus 4.
214. Warming up will alleviate the tension and ground your thoughts.
215. Maybe the fraught confrontation earlier had defused some of the tension building up between them.
216. The talks were due to include discussions of measures to reduce tension between the two states and to promote bilateral exchanges.
217. Another source of increasing tension in the federal aid system concerned citizen participation in decisionmaking.
218. Finally, set both carriages to knit and using tension 2, knit the rib.
219. Derrida himself is interested in the tension created between discursive play and history.
220. His new parent company may now be adding different tension as he lays plans to rationalise staffing structures.
221. But renewed tension in Corsica over recent weeks has again brought demands for an amnesty to the forefront.
222. He explained that he had refrained from elaborating on his opponents' anti-constitutional activities in order to avoid tension.
223. The little office was fairly bristling with tension and expectation.
224. The right faction wants to create tension and chaos, said Karem Korbanzadeh.
225. The complicated cultural, religious and political make up created a further cause of tension.
226. Obviously, such a drastic revision created a significant amount of tension at the plant.
227. Mary Mara makes the volatile Ruth a mainspring of precarious tension, capable of a solitary three-way argument over a peanut-butter sandwich.
228. Or did the belief in their inevitable demise subject them to a constant state of tension and anxiety?
229. Directly measured tissue oxygen tension and arterial oxygen tension assess tissue perfusion.
230. They know how helpful tears are to defuse tension and how constructive their aftermath can be.
231. The resultant flow relieves the tension and produces the observed stress decay.
232. Dancers say tension between ballroom and line dancers who compete for dance floor space has existed for years.
233. Our amusement at his false assumption seemed to ease the tension between us.
234. The case has again focused attention on tension between Miami's police force and the city's black community.
235. Conversely[sentencedict.com], in languages with relatively fixed word order there will be greater instances of tension between syntax and communicative function.
236. At this level there is a fundamental tension between stability and creativity within organizations.
237. The director uses music to accentuate the rising dramatic tension.
238. As often as not,(www.Sentencedict.com) the government would then act against the loyalists to prevent the increase in tension.
239. In this way heart rate, respiration rate, oxygen consumption, and muscle tension all reduce without conscious effort.
240. If you have an agitated mind, the tension in your body is not going to let you drift off.
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