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¿Cómo se denomina a la acción de equilibrar proporcionalmente el grado de tensión entre varios cabos?What is evening out the tension between several lines called?

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Correct answer: b) Taking up (templar).

Why it is correct

Taking up is adjusting lines so they share the load evenly. Tensioning is making them very taut.

Why the others are not

  • a) Very taut.
  • c) Slack.
  • d) Coil.

How to work it out in the exam

  1. Even tension: take up.

Where this question comes from

Try it: Propeller and rudder

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