Tense may refer to:
Biology
* Tense, a state of
muscle contraction
Linguistics
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Grammatical tense
In grammar, tense is a grammatical category, category that expresses time reference. Tenses are usually manifested by the use of specific forms of verbs, particularly in their grammatical conjugation, conjugation patterns.
The main tenses foun ...
, a property of verbs indicating chronology
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Tense–aspect–mood, a wider set of verb features (colloquially "tense")
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Tenseness, a constrained pronunciation, especially of vowels
Media
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''Tense'' (album), a 2014 album by TVXQ
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''Tense'' (artwork), a 1990 art installation by Anya Gallaccio
See also
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Tension (disambiguation)
Tension may refer to:
Science
* Psychological stress
* Tension (physics), a force related to the stretching of an object (the opposite of compression)
* Tension (geology), a stress which stretches rocks in two opposite directions
* Voltage or el ...
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