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Difference Between Voltage and Tension.

12/24/2012 9:38 AM

Why high voltage is also called high tension...?
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Re: Diff. B/W Voltage and Tension..

12/24/2012 9:47 AM

Why high voltage lines (overhead ) are called high tension lines?
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12/24/2012 10:38 AM

Language variations.

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Re: Difference Between Voltage and Tension.

12/24/2012 10:40 AM

Appearently just because the terms are interchangable.

high-ten·sion

adj.

Having a high voltage.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

high-tension

n

(Electronics) (modifier) subjected to, carrying, or capable of operating at a relatively high voltage a high-tension wire Abbreviation HT

Collins English Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

high-tension

Having a high voltage, or designed to work at or sustain high voltages. High-tension wires used to carry electrical power over long distances sustain voltages over 200,000 volts. Compare low-tension.

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Re: Difference Between Voltage and Tension.

12/26/2012 5:23 AM

Some times high potential also. 'high pot' test
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Re: Difference Between Voltage and Tension.

12/26/2012 8:24 AM

The term high tension was probably coined by the first electrician to have to work on the higher voltages, back in the dark past when safety was a secondary concern to economic losses caused by power outages.

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Re: Difference Between Voltage and Tension.

01/02/2013 7:44 AM

Because English is a rich language where there are many words for some things and many ways of saying the same thing. Sometimes the Atlantic Ocean gets in the way, for example:

  • Trunk/boot
  • Gasoline/petrol
  • Tire/tyre
  • Fender/bumper
  • Sidewalk/pavement
  • Pavement/road surface
  • Ground/Earth
  • Center/centre
  • Color/colour

and so-on, ad nauseam.

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Re: Difference Between Voltage and Tension.

01/13/2013 12:13 AM

Low Voltage is called low tension.

I wonder if it may be related to the same kind of problem that caused French Fries to be called Home Fries. Volta was Italian, Catholic and honored by France. England had periods when there was extreme tension between them for any and all of those reasons.

Also a high voltage charge produces great tension on the orbital electrons in materials.
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