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- English Word Tenonian Definition Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist.
- English Word Tenor Definition A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
- English Word Tenor Definition That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
- English Word Tenor Definition Stamp; character; nature.
- English Word Tenor Definition An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.
- English Word Tenor Definition The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.
- English Word Tenor Definition A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.
- English Word Tenosynovitis Definition Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.
- English Word Tenotome Definition A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.
- English Word Tenotomy Definition The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.
- English Word Tenpenny Definition Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.
- English Word Tenpenny Definition Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.
- English Word Tenpins Definition A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins.
- English Word Tenrec Definition A small insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac.
- English Word Tense Definition One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
- English Word Tense Definition Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
- English Word Tensibility Definition The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.
- English Word Tensible Definition Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible.
- English Word Tensile Definition Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.
- English Word Tensile Definition Capable of extension; ductile; tensible.
- English Word Tensiled Definition Made tensile.
- English Word Tensility Definition The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles.
- English Word Tension Definition The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.
- English Word Tension Definition Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.
- English Word Tension Definition The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain.
- English Word Tension Definition The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.
- English Word Tension Definition A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.
- English Word Tension Definition Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air.
- English Word Tension Definition The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area.
- English Word Tensioned Definition Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension.