High Tension

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:

    The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard,
    The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky,
    Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard;
    Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear it by and by.
    Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
    Joan Didion (b. 1935)