Tension is also an anxious situation of anger and lack of trust between two groups of people. The surface stresses (tensions) are functions of the local extension ratios, which depend on the global deformation of the membrane. Both reflect an early twentieth-century tension between theories of knowledge and theories of vision. More @Wikipedia
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