Definition of Low-tension

1. Adjective. Subjected to or capable of operating under relative low voltage.

Exact synonyms: Low-voltage
Category relationships: Electricity
Antonyms: High-tension

Lexicographical Neighbors of Low-tension

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low-tension (current term)
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Literary usage of Low-tension

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"The low tension magneto has but one winding on the armature called the primary winding. A high tension magneto has two windings on the armature, ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1911)
"B. SWITCHING OUT OPEN LINE AND STEP-UP TRANSFORMER BY low-tension SWITCHES Fig. 3 gives the diagram of connections. The generator excites the line through ..."

3. The Gasoline Automobile by George William Hobbs (1915)
"A "low tension" type of magneto is one which delivers current of a low voltage, which must be converted to the necessary high voltage for ignition by an ..."

4. The Gasoline Automobile by Peter Martin Heldt (1918)
"CHAPTER VIII Low Tension Ignition So far as automobile practice is concerned, low tension ignition is a thing of the past, but it may prove of interest from ..."

5. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1913)
"Looked at from the point of performance and real flex \ however, the advantage seems to lie with the transformer having 1 a single low-tension winding. ..."

6. Electrical Engineering Laboratory Experiments by Claire William Ricker, Carlton Everett Tucker (1922)
"89 shows, diagrammatically, the low-tension sides of the two transformers in parallel with the high-tension sides in parallel or series opposition. ..."

7. Electrical Review (1891)
"The generator will be an alternating-current dynamo of as low tension as possible. The winding of the armatures of the dynamos used in the Oerlikon Works ..."

8. The Electrical Engineer (1898)
"If, then, you should decide to select the low-tension proposition, and finding that you ultimately require to carry your lighting much beyond a mile in any ..."

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