A contraction of the words tension and integrity. Tension is the force created by pulling or stretching an object and integrity is a state of wholeness or completeness. The combination of the two provide for structures whose shapes are held together by tension and remain flexible and strong.

Buckminster Fuller term for rigid systems of combined compressive and tensional integrity, exhibited in biology by internal certain cellular architectures and bone muscle-tendon systems

Structure Using Distributed Tension to Hold Islands of Compression

Tensegrity was a term used by Carlos Castaneda to refer to the modernized version of some movements called magical passes (a series of meditative stretches, stances and movements) developed by Native American shamans who lived in Mexico in times prior to the Spanish conquest.

a bunch of points connected by cables and struts