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:

    It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,—”Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    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)