high-tension

1. 1.

   subjected to or capable of operating under relatively high voltage

   “high-tension wire”

   Antonymslow-tension

   Similarhigh-voltage

   electricity

Questions about high-tension

What does high-tension mean?

high-tension means "subjected to or capable of operating under relatively high voltage".

How many syllables are in high-tension?

high-tension has 4 syllables: high--ten-si-on. The stress falls on "si".

What is the opposite of high-tension?

The recorded antonyms are low-tension.

Is high-tension a common word?

high-tension is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.