tensioned
adj1
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 23, “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:
- Derived terms
- nontensioned, pretensioned, untensioned