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:
“All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at first sight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“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)