high-voltage

Questions about high-voltage

What does high-voltage mean?

high-voltage means "operating on or powered by a high voltage". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in high-voltage?

high-voltage has 3 syllables: high--vol-tage. The stress falls on "high-".

What is another word for high-voltage?

Close synonyms include high-potential, high-octane, high-powered, high-power, high-energy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is high-voltage a common word?

high-voltage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.