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(1):

(n.) One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.

(2):

(a.) Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.