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Tension is used in English to mean voltage sometimes too! The most common place I can think of is in the HT (High Tension) leads leading to a car's spark plugs
by TomNomNom 6y ago
Tension is used in English to mean voltage sometimes too!
The most common place I can think of is in the HT (High Tension) leads leading to a car's spark plugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_tension_leads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_tension_leads
- ziml77 6y agoTHAT is what high tension wires are?! I've always seen it in the context of the massive transmission lines, so I thought it meant that the wires themselves were under high tension from their weight.
- awhitby 6y agoAlso "high tension power lines," which being heavy catenaries presumably are in high mechanical tension, but must surely have gotten that name from the voltage = tension thing. German has this too: voltage = Spannung = tension. This must go right back to the earliest writings on voltage as a concept.
- natmaka 6y agoFrench also has "tension" in this very sense. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_%C3%A9lectrique https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_%C3%A9lectrique