Tension may refer to:
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Psychological stress
In psychology, stress is a feeling of emotional strain and pressure. Stress is a type of psychological pain. Small amounts of stress may be beneficial, as it can improve athletic performance, motivation and reaction to the environment. Exces ...
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Tension (physics), a force related to the stretching of an object (the opposite of compression)
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Tension (geology), a stress which stretches rocks in two opposite directions
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Voltage or electric tension, the difference in electric potential energy between two points
Entertainment
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Tension (music), the perceived need for relaxation or release created by a listener's expectations
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Suspense
Suspense is a state of mental uncertainty, anxiety, being undecided, or being doubtful. In a dramatic work, suspense is the anticipation of the outcome of a plot or of the solution to an uncertainty, puzzle, or mystery, particularly as it aff ...
, the feeling of uncertainty and interest about the outcome of certain actions an audience perceives
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''Tension'' (film), a 1949 film by John Berry
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Tension (Taiwanese band), a Taiwanese a cappella group and boy band
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Tension (hardcore band), an American hardcore punk band
Albums
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''Tension'' (Dizmas album), a 2007 album by Dizmas
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''Tension'' (Bakufu Slump album), 1994
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''Tension'' (Die Antwoord album), 2012
Songs
* "Tension", a song by Avenged Sevenfold from ''
Diamonds in the Rough''
* "Tension", a song by Jack & Jack from ''
A Good Friend Is Nice
''A Good Friend Is Nice'' is the debut studio album by American pop-rap duo Jack & Jack. It was released on January 25, 2019 via Island Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music. The album was supported by an accompanying tour named Good Friends A ...
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* "Tension", a song by Killing Joke from ''
What's THIS For...!''
* "Tension", a song by Korn from ''
The Path of Totality''
* "Tension", a song by Orbital from ''
The Altogether
''The Altogether'' is Orbital's sixth studio album and was released in 2001. It features guest vocals by the Hartnolls' brother-in-law David Gray, a sampled Ian Dury, a sample from "Sober" by Tool and a version of the ''Doctor Who'' theme. ...
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* "Tension", a song by Scullion from the 1980 album ''
Balance and Control''
* "Tension", a song by Susumu Hirasawa from ''
Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack''
* "Tension (Interlude)", a song by Børns from ''
Blue Madonna''
Other uses
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Tension (knitting), a factor that affects knitting gauge
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Tenseness, in phonetics, a phonological quality frequently associated with vowels and occasionally with consonants
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Muscle tone
In physiology, medicine, and anatomy, muscle tone (residual muscle tension or tonus) is the continuous and passive partial muscle contraction, contraction of the muscles, or the muscle's resistance to passive stretch during resting state.O’Sull ...
or residual muscle tension, a partial contraction of the muscles
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''The Void'' (video game), also known as ''Tension'' in some regions
See also
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Stress (disambiguation)
Stress may refer to:
Science and medicine
* Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition
* Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phrase ...
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