Tense

Tense may refer to:

Biology

 * Tense, a state of muscle contraction

Linguistics

 * Grammatical tense, a property of verbs indicating chronology
 * Tense–aspect–mood, a wider set of verb features (colloquially "tense")
 * Tenseness, a constrained pronunciation, especially of vowels

Media

 * Tense (album), a 2014 album by TVXQ
 * Tense (artwork), a 1990 art installation by Anya Gallaccio