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:
“As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, change which suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)