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High-tension

adjective

Subjected to or capable of operating under relatively high voltage.

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"High-tension" Quotes from Famous Books

... uncertainty consists largely as to how high-tension steel will endure the manipulation usual with iron without injury. A few experiments were recently made by the writer on riveted struts of both mild and hard steel, which had been punched, straightened, ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 • Various

... that, Major," the chief interrupted. "We haven't the available power, now, for high-tension current. So we must fall back ...

— The Flying Legion • George Allan England