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.
What is SURFACE TENSION? A property possessed by liquid surfaces whereby they appear to be covered by a thin elastic membrane in a state of tension, the surface tension being measured by the force acting normally across unit length in the surface. The phenomenon is due to unbalanced molecular cohesive forces near the surface. Units of measurement are N m 1.