Usually means: Applying tension to reinforcement before.
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  1. pretensioning: Merriam-Webster
  2. pretensioning: Wiktionary

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  1. pretensioning: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  tensioning in advance

Similar:
pretentiousness, pretence, pretense, preassumption, preconfiguration, prætension, prespecification, preconcertedness, pretensioner, preactivation, more...

Opposite:
unpretensioning, relaxing, loosening

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Similar:
pretentiousness, pretence, pretense, preassumption, preconfiguration, prætension, prespecification, preconcertedness, pretensioner, preactivation, more...

Opposite:
unpretensioning, relaxing, loosening



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