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- English Word Tensity Definition The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.
- English Word Tensive Definition Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.
- English Word Tensor Definition A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
- English Word Tensor Definition The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.
- English Word Tensure Definition Tension.
- English Word Tent Definition A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
- English Word Tent Definition Attention; regard, care.
- English Word Tent Definition Intention; design.
- English Word Tent Definition To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
- English Word Tent Definition To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
- English Word Tent Definition A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
- English Word Tent Definition A probe for searching a wound.
- English Word Tent Definition A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
- English Word Tent Definition The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
- English Word Tent Definition To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
- English Word Tentacle Definition A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.
- English Word Tentacled Definition Having tentacles.
- English Word Tentacula Definition of Tentaculum
- English Word Tentacular Definition Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
- English Word Tentaculata Definition A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.
- English Word Tentaculate Definition Alt. of Tentaculated
- English Word Tentaculated Definition Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.
- English Word Tentaculifera Definition Same as Suctoria, 1.
- English Word Tentaculiferous Definition Producing or bearing tentacles.
- English Word Tentaculiform Definition Shaped like a tentacle.
- English Word Tentaculite Definition Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.
- English Word Tentaculocyst Definition One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; -- called also auditory tentacle.
- English Word Tentaculum Definition A tentacle.
- English Word Tentaculum Definition One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair.
- English Word Tentage Definition A collection of tents; an encampment.