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tensioned en · ADJ
Meanings
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In tension; strained or pulled on.
Most of the overhead system is of the weight-tensioned type, constant tension being automatically applied by balance weights.
1959 June 14, “Clacton and Walton Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 379:It is in the nature of the assertion of distinctions of identity that they force others to realize they are in a place that is not so universal, that their straight being is at best a tensioned coil likely to snap back any time soon.
1982 December 4, Martin Krieger, “Come Out Croaking”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 8:
Forms
Deriveds
pretensioned · nontensioned · untensioned
tensioned en · VERB
Meanings
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(form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of tension