High tension is a synonym for high voltage.
It can also mean:
- The HT, high tension or B battery supply to a traditional vacuum tube circuit, see HT (vacuum tube)
- Haute Tension, a French horror film released as High Tension in North America
Famous quotes containing the words high and/or tension:
“Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,
Yet with my nobler reason ‘gainst my fury
Do I take part. The rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)