high-voltage

[ hahy-vohl-tij ]

adjective
  1. operating on or powered by high voltage: a high-voltage generator.

  2. Informal. dynamic; powerful: a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur.

Origin of high-voltage

1
First recorded in 1965–70

Words Nearby high-voltage

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How to use high-voltage in a sentence

  • An armature wound with very fine wire will deliver a current of high voltage but of low amperage.

    Aviation Engines | Victor Wilfred Pag
  • In the Thury system of power transmission high-voltage direct current is used throughout.

  • We could see that it was fully thirty feet high with what evidently were naked high-voltage wires protecting its top.

    Beyond the Vanishing Point | Raymond King Cummings
  • A quivering sensation like a charge of high voltage electricity shot through Dave.

    Dave Dawson with the R.A.F | R. Sidney Bowen
  • But before beginning the anodynous "Wormwood," she launched into another high-voltage eulogy of Angelica's brother.