The device then applies controlled tension along the axis of the spinal column, while the harness assists in providing decompression of the lumbar spine.

Her face showed signs of fatigue, but her eyes were bright with controlled tension.

There was a controlled tension in the man that put Kaelin on edge.

There was a climate of controlled tension in the bridge as he entered it.

He could feel the controlled tension in Sickbay the mo-ment he entered it.

"Go ahead, Officer Mundy," he said with the controlled tension of a gymnast balancing.

There was none of the feeling of controlled tension he remembered from previous actions, not even at the sight of a kzin warship crushed so easily.

Despite his girth, the man seemed to radiate strength and controlled tension.

Here, too, the playing failed to build to the climaxes in the first and third movement, or sweep along with the controlled tension of, say, a Charles Munch.

Tensile testing, also known as tension testing, is a fundamental materials science test in which a sample is subjected to a controlled tension until failure.