Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to tension; of the nature of tension.
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- adjective Relating to
tension .
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- adjective of or relating to or produced by tension
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Examples
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Slide 4: Constructive plate margin Also called a tensional or divergent boundary This type of boundary is found mainly under the oceans.
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If the seasonal narrative is constructed across a series of episodically discrete narratives, each with their own architecture of tensional disruption, there is no reason not to view each discrete episode -- or the isolated narrative of any novel, story or movie -- as similarly constructed across a series of episodically discrete lower-level narratives.
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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If the seasonal narrative is constructed across a series of episodically discrete narratives, each with their own architecture of tensional disruption, there is no reason not to view each discrete episode -- or the isolated narrative of any novel, story or movie -- as similarly constructed across a series of episodically discrete lower-level narratives.
More on Narrative Hal Duncan 2008
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Once one side of that dysfunctional relationship faltered, the other would be left without the tensional juice to keep up the old destructive balance.
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Each block moves vertically to compensate for the tensional forces producing normal and graben faults.
Mountain 2008
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The increasing thickness of the water pulls the rock grains apart with great tensional stress.
Weathering 2008
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The later two stages of this model involve tectonic convergence of crustal plates which provides the compressional and tensional stresses that produce rock deformation, uplift, and faulting.
Mountain 2008
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This isostatic rebound causes vertical uplift and the tensional forces due to the movement of the crust creates normal and graben faults.
Mountain 2008
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This process also causes tensional forces to exist in a horizontal direction breaking the continental crust into a number of blocks.
Mountain 2008
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A graben fault is produced when tensional stresses result in the subsidence of a block of rock.
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