Tension may refer to:

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• Psychological stress
• 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, the difference in electric potential energy between two points

• Tension (music), the perceived need for relaxation or release created by a listener's expectations
• Suspense, the feeling of uncertainty and interest about the outcome of certain actions an audience perceives
• Tension (film), a 1949 film by John Berry
• Tension (Taiwanese band), a Taiwanese a cappella group and boy band
• Tension (hardcore band), an American hardcore punk band

• Tension (knitting), a factor that affects knitting gauge
• Tenseness, in phonetics, a phonological quality frequently associated with vowels and occasionally with consonants
• Muscle tone or residual muscle tension, a partial contraction of the muscles
• The Void (video game), also known as Tension in some regions

• Stress (disambiguation)

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