Science
- 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 electric tension
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“Where have those flowers and butterflies all gone
That science may have staked the future on?
He seems to say the reason why so much
Should come to nothing must be fairly faced.....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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