Tension (physics)

Mechanical tension - Pulling force transmitted axially – Opposite of compression. Article "Tension (physics)" in English Wikipedia has 27.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Tension (physics)", its content was written by 163 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 452 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 448 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1795 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22113 in April 2022
• Global: #31819 in April 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #21351 in October 2013
• Global: #34011 in October 2013

There are 21 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 張力		27.4721
2	English (en) Tension (physics)		27.1603
3	Hebrew (he) מתיחות		23.5641
4	Ukrainian (uk) Розтяг		23.4438
5	Romanian (ro) Forță de întindere		22.5089
6	Portuguese (pt) Tensão (física)		20.5816
7	Spanish (es) Tensión (mecánica)		19.0289
8	Greek (el) Εφελκυσμός		14.1449
9	Arabic (ar) شد		13.0383
10	Korean (ko) 장력		10.1347

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Tension (physics)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tension (physics)		3 809 037
2	Spanish (es) Tensión (mecánica)		466 483
3	Chinese (zh) 張力		329 851
4	Portuguese (pt) Tensão (física)		269 278
5	Italian (it) Tensione (meccanica)		266 843
6	Japanese (ja) 張力		265 899
7	French (fr) Tension mécanique		153 247
8	Greek (el) Εφελκυσμός		150 597
9	Polish (pl) Siła naciągu		139 419
10	Korean (ko) 장력		121 640

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Tension (physics)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tension (physics)		6 399
2	Spanish (es) Tensión (mecánica)		1 116
3	Chinese (zh) 張力		919
4	Japanese (ja) 張力		558
5	Greek (el) Εφελκυσμός		466
6	Korean (ko) 장력		457
7	Simple English (simple) Tension (mechanics)		376
8	Italian (it) Tensione (meccanica)		277
9	Hebrew (he) מתיחות		271
10	French (fr) Tension mécanique		227

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Tension (physics)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tension (physics)		163
2	Italian (it) Tensione (meccanica)		45
3	French (fr) Tension mécanique		37
4	Chinese (zh) 張力		26
5	Swedish (sv) Mekanisk spänning		25
6	Hebrew (he) מתיחות		24
7	Portuguese (pt) Tensão (física)		19
8	Japanese (ja) 張力		15
9	Arabic (ar) شد		14
10	Greek (el) Εφελκυσμός		13

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Tension (physics)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) شد		0
2	Greek (el) Εφελκυσμός		0
3	English (en) Tension (physics)		0
4	Spanish (es) Tensión (mecánica)		0
5	Persian (fa) کشش (فیزیک)		0
6	French (fr) Tension mécanique		0
7	Hebrew (he) מתיחות		0
8	Hindi (hi) तनाव (भौतिकी)		0
9	Indonesian (id) Tarikan (fisika)		0
10	Italian (it) Tensione (meccanica)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Tension (physics)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Tension (physics)		448
2	Chinese (zh) 張力		426
3	Japanese (ja) 張力		121
4	Italian (it) Tensione (meccanica)		101
5	French (fr) Tension mécanique		85
6	Swedish (sv) Mekanisk spänning		84
7	Ukrainian (uk) Розтяг		83
8	Arabic (ar) شد		65
9	Korean (ko) 장력		52
10	Spanish (es) Tensión (mecánica)		51

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شد
el	Greek Εφελκυσμός
en	English Tension (physics)
es	Spanish Tensión (mecánica)
fa	Persian کشش (فیزیک)
fr	French Tension mécanique
he	Hebrew מתיחות
hi	Hindi तनाव (भौतिकी)
id	Indonesian Tarikan (fisika)
it	Italian Tensione (meccanica)
ja	Japanese 張力
kk	Kazakh Ұлғаю мен сығылу
ko	Korean 장력
pl	Polish Siła naciągu
pt	Portuguese Tensão (física)
ro	Romanian Forță de întindere
ru	Russian Сила натяжения
simple	Simple English Tension (mechanics)
sv	Swedish Mekanisk spänning
uk	Ukrainian Розтяг
zh	Chinese 張力

Best Rank

English: #21351 10.2013

Global: #34011 10.2013

Best Rank

English: #22113 04.2022

Global: #31819 04.2022

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