What is "high-voltage"

Usage examples of "high-voltage".

We are testing some new detonators that must fire through a bank of high-voltage condensers in the same one-millionth of a second.

The exaltation of your blood, your muscled flesh, elevates your being, offers it up, whatever creature it is that lies sleeping along the twists and turns of your nerves is awakened, comes vividly alive like the magnetic field pulsing about a high-voltage line, its yellow eyes slide open and it rouses itself to a howl that is answered by the elements, your dragon calls to the dragon of the natural world and receives a gorgeous reply.

From even this slight elevation on the mound Britt can see that glowing high-voltage wires form a gridwork across the little city.

The City Council was sold the pitch that the higher voltages would mean that the industry would locate here, and the people were told that they would not only find new jobs coming to them, but they could also soon have such modern conveniences as electric clothes dryers and other high-voltage appliances that the archaic electrical service that they had at the time could not handle.

At the designated hour, an electrician throws a switch and a high-voltage alternating current surges through your body for two or three minutes -- typically starting at 2,000 volts at 5 amps, with the voltage varied periodically.

The smokestacks were throwing out their columns of inky oil smoke, telling of power feeding into the turbines that furnished the station with a steady, dependable supply of high-voltage, direct-current electricity.

The self-defense weapon was an electrical discharge device that disabled the enemy with a bolt of high-voltage energy.

The whole ship must be—” Artoo Detoo cut him off in midspeech with some angry beepings and hoots of his own, though he continued to cut and pull with precision at the tangled high-voltage cables.

If we measure the electrical patterns of a cat’s brain when the cat goes from nondreaming sleep to REM sleep, we see that the high-voltage slow electrical waves give way to low-voltage fast elec­trical activity.

Nothing ferrous, including handcuffs and shackles, is permitted, and only plastic flex-cuffs restrain Basil’s ankles and wrists as he lies on the table inside the magnet, listening to the jarring knocks and wonks of radiofrequency pulses that sound like infernal music played on high-voltage power lines—or that’s what Benton imagines.

The thing functioned off a high-voltage battery, and the current from this was stepped up and interrupted until it would deliver a stupefying shock.