Tense

• Grammatical tense
  Grammatical tense
  
  Grammatical tense is a temporal language quality expressing the time at, during, or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs.Tense is one of at least five qualities, along with grammatical mood, grammatical voice, grammatical aspect, and grammatical person, which verb forms may express....
  , a temporal linguistic quality expressing the time at, during, or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs
• Tenseness
  Tenseness
  
  In phonology, tenseness is a particular vowel quality that is phoneme contrastive in many languages, including English language. It has also occasionally been used to describe contrasts in consonants....
  , a phonological quality frequently associated with vowels and occasionally with consonants
• Tense, a state of muscle contraction
  Muscle contraction
  
  Muscle fiber generates tension through the action of actin and myosin cross-bridge cycling. While under tension, the muscle may #Eccentric contraction, #Concentric contraction or #Isometric contraction....
  

See also

• Tension
  Tension
  
  Tension may refer to:In science:*Tension , a force related to the stretching of an object *Electrical tension, see voltage*High-tension, in electrical power transmissions wires which carry high-voltages...
   (disambiguation)