tensioner

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend-der. Proto-Italic *tendō Latin tendō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin tēnsiōder. Middle French tensionbor. English tension Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English tensioner From tension + -er.

derived from *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English tensioner From tension + -er✻
derived from -āriusbor
derived from *-āsjos Latin -āriusnom✻
derived from tension Proto-Indo-European *-yósder
derived from tensionbor
derived from *tendō Latin tendō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin tēnsiōder✻
derived from *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend-der✻

Definitions

Any device that maintains or applies tension

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tensioner. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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