Definition of Tensional

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or produced by tension.

Derivative terms: Tension
Partainyms: Tension

Definition of Tensional

1. Adjective. Relating to tension. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tensional

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tensional

tensin
tensing
tensio active
tensiometer
tensiometers
tensiometric
tensiometries
tensiometry
tension
tension curve
tension headache
tension pneumothorax
tension suture
tension wrench
tension wrenches
tensional (current term)
tensionally
tensioned
tensioner
tensioners
tensioning
tensionless
tensions
tensities
tensity
tensive
tensome
tensomes
tensometer
tensometers

Literary usage of Tensional

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Secondary or tensional movements.—In the foregoing primary deformations ... As these tensional phenomena are widely prevalent, they imply a general cause. ..."

2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Secondary or tensional movements.—In the foregoing primary deformations ... As these tensional phenomena are widely prevalent, they imply a general cause. ..."

3. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1897)
"Since, however, tensional -trcs-e- at the same time cau-ea decrease of the magnetisation, the electro- motile force produced is the difference between the ..."

4. The Gases in Rocks by Rollin Thomas Chamberlin (1908)
"A thrust from the compressional zone toward the tensional zone is indicated ... Rather should we expect yielding in the direction of the tensional area and ..."

5. The Tidal and Other Problems by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Forest Ray Moulton, Charles Sumner Slichter, William Duncan MacMillan, Arthur Constant Lunn, Julius Stieglitz (1909)
"A thrust from the compressional zone toward the tensional zone is indicated ... Rather should we expect yielding in the direction of the tensional area and ..."

6. The Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design and Machinist's and by Charles A. Armengaud, William Johnson, Jules Amouroux (1854)
"tensional RESISTANCE. 154. A tensile force is one which acts on a body in the direction of its length, tending to increase the length, and when carried to a ..."

7. Bench Work in Wood: A Course of Study and Practice Designed for the Use of by William Freeman Myrick Goss (1888)
"... B-ig.ass Irig. sse 7 subject to compressional strain, which has a tendency to reduce their length, as indicated by Fig. 225 ; or tensional strain, ..."

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