tensão

Significat (Anglès)

1. (feminine) tenseness (the characteristic of being tense)
2. (feminine) tension (psychological state of being tense)
3. (feminine) tension (state of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length)
4. (feminine) stress (the internal distribution of force per unit area)
5. (feminine) tension; voltage
6. (feminine) a situation where conflict between social groups is imminent
7. (feminine) tenseness (a particular vowel or consonant quality)
8. (Provençal, feminine) tenson (debate between two interlocutors)

Conceptes

tensió

nerviosisme

nerviositat

nervis

esgotament

estrès

fatiga

Oposat a

frouxidão

Sinònims

nervosismo

stress

sobrecarga

voltagem

vida agitada

tono

tensão mecânica

fadiga

trabalho excessivo

pressão

Traduccions

tension

tensión

Spannung

tension

tensione

spanning

stress

voltage

tension électrique

توتُّر

strain

voltaggio

ένταση

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/tẽˈsɐ̃w̃/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Manllevat de llatí: tensiō

In summary

Borrowed from Latin tēnsiōnem (“stretching; tension”), from tendō (“to stretch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Doublet of the inherited tesão.