TUTOR, civil law. A person who has been lawfully appointed to the care of the person and property of a minor. 2. By the laws of Louisiana minors under the age of fourteen years, if males, and under the age of twelve years, if females, are both, as to their persons and their estates, placed under the authority of a tutor. Civ.
Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: tension(Noun) Psychological state of being tense. tension(Noun) Condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other. tension(Noun) State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
In a suspension bridge the piers are completed and then cables are draped across the piers, seated, and tensioned. They have to be stretched to something in order to stay tight--and so they are anchored to the earth. Ultimately all loads end up being delivered back to the earth. The bridge deck is hung from the main cables with smaller cables in manageable segments. Finally the deck is poured over the individual segments. Note the extremely delicate balancing act of cantilevering the bridge deck off the piers.