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:

    As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    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)