high-voltage
Americanadjective
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operating on or powered by high voltage.
a high-voltage generator.
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Informal. dynamic; powerful.
a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur.
Etymology
Origin of high-voltage
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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The roughly 40 data centers, which had been using enough electricity to supply more than one million homes, simultaneously switched to backup power sources in February 2025, when a high-voltage power line malfunctioned.
Power-discrete chips, on the other hand, are similar but used in high-voltage and high-current systems, such as vehicles and industrial machinery.
From MarketWatch
His restraint suits a story in which machine-kind and humankind begin to feel shrink-wrapped together, the ghosts belabored by increasing social pressure, the humans jolted by high-voltage wires.
From Los Angeles Times
Transmission charges are imposed on power generators to build and maintain the network of pylons and underground cables which carry high-voltage electricity around Great Britain.
From BBC
This is one of five such panels that take high-voltage power generated by the engines and distribute it around the aircraft.
From BBC
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