pretension
Noun
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Noun
pretension
- A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
- Pretentiousness.
- Portuguese: pretensão
- Spanish: pretensión
pretension (pretensions, present participle pretensioning; past and past participle pretensioned)
- To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
- (construction) To apply tension to reinforcing strands before concrete is poured in.
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