Usually means: Groups of ten units each.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. TENS, TENS, tens: Merriam-Webster
  2. TENS: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. TENS: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. TENS: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tens: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ten's, Tens, ten's, tens: Wordnik
  7. TENS, tens: Wiktionary
  8. TENS: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. TENS: Dictionary.com
  10. TENS, Tens (disambiguation), Tens: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. TENS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  12. TENS: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tens-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TENS: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. TENS: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. TENS: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. TENS: Medical dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  7. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TENS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. TENS: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tens: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tens: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Tens: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (TENS)

▸ noun:  An inexact quantity or number, typically understood to be between 10 or 20 and 100.
▸ noun:  (poker slang) A pair of tens.
▸ noun:  The period from a year 100x + 10 to a year 100x + 19 (mostly referring to the 1910s or 2010s). The teens, the oneties.
▸ noun:  (medicine) Initialism of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.
▸ noun:  (medicine) Abbreviation of toxic epidermal necrolysis.

Similar:
decade, cardinal, X, tenner, 10's, tenness, tenscore, tensomething, tensome, double digits, more...

Opposite:
loose, relaxed, slack, limp, flexible

Types:
ones, more...

Phrases:
tens place, five and tens, Rugby tens, past tens, tens of thousands, more...

Adjectives:
several, few, many, worth, only, and, additional, conventional, eight, five, top



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Similar:
decade, cardinal, X, tenner, 10's, tenness, tenscore, tensomething, tensome, double digits, more...

Opposite:
loose, relaxed, slack, limp, flexible

Types:
ones, more...

Phrases:
tens place, five and tens, Rugby tens, past tens, tens of thousands, numbering system using tens, tens of thousand, more...

Adjectives:
several, few, many, worth, only, and, additional, conventional, eight, five, top



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