tens

abbreviation, noun

transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, a technique intended to provide pain relief by applying electrodes to the skin to block impulses in underlying nerves.

1. equivalent to the product of five and two; one more than nine; 10.

   the last ten years

   the house comfortably sleeps ten

   a ten-foot shrub

Old English tēn, tīen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tien and German zehn, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit daśa, Greek deka, and Latin decem .