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low-voltage

low-voltage \low-voltage\ adj. 1. (Electricity) subjected to or capable of operating under relative low voltage, usually considered as no greater than 250 volts. Contrasted with high-voltage.

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low-voltage

adj. subjected to or capable of operating under relative low voltage [syn: low-tension] [ant: high-tension]

Usage examples of "low-voltage".

Cecilia Boden had provided a few low-voltage lights along the path to the cabins, small mushroom shapes that cast a circle of dim yellow on the cedar chips.

What is happening is that a stream of low-voltage electrons -- cathode rays -- in great quantity are meeting great quantities of sextuply ionized oxygen.

We use low-voltage electric currents to deliver mild shocks during discrimination training.

With that fixed, physical escape would certainly be impossible, and the screening effect of the low-voltage energization in the mesh would effectively stop transmission or reception.

I did administer Extreme Unction, but then the panic struck me and I left my poor guide's body, desperately searched through the supplies for a weapon, and took away the machete I had used in the rain forest and the low-voltage maser with which I had planned to hunt small game.

It seemed to be a rather complex organic chem synthesis setup, complete with fractionation and distillation apparatus, diffusion gradients, and low-voltage electrical nodes.

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.