What is "tensioning"

Usage examples of "tensioning".

The Seawitch was well-equipped with sensory devices, apart from those which controlled the tensioning anchor cables.

One was Palermo and the other was one of the rig crew, Simpson, whose duty it was to monitor the sensory instruments attached to the platform's legs and the tensioning anchor cables.

Neither diver had any wish to blow up the pile-driven anchors or the tensioning cables attached to the anchors.

Try any other sequence of installing and tensioning those wires and they would be out of balance, incorrect and unsafe, depriving the aircraft of much of its structural strength.

Each of the lines was taken, in turn, around the pulley and used for tensioning, sometimes two at once.

The parts were connected by eight tensioning cables around the rim as well as by fifty feet of rigid tubing, giving the whole the form of an unbalanced dumbbell.

At the same time she kept pressure on the cylinder with a spring steel tensioning tool.