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:
“I laugh at the lore and pride of man
At the sophist schools, and the learned clan;
For what are they all, in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)