high voltage
Transformer warning sign
High voltage refers to electrical potential strong enough to pose serious danger—typically above 1,000 volts in professional contexts, though standards vary.
Power lines carry high voltage; so do industrial equipment and lightning.
Figuratively, high-voltage describes intense energy or excitement: a high-voltage performance, high-voltage negotiations.
The hyphenated form works as an adjective: high-voltage wires.
Death from electrical current
- flashoverSudden total combustion event
- shockViolent sudden disturbance
- fatalCausing death or ruin
- lethalCausing or capable of death
deadly · warning · hazard · caution · safety · precaution · risk · peril
Voltage-altering electrical device
- transmissionSending of information
- substationPower distribution point
- switchgearCircuit control equipment
- breakerWave that collapses shoreward
capacitor · insulator · conductor · power-line · pylon · arrester · disconnect · relay
electrocution
Death from electrical current
lethal · deadly · warning · hazard · caution · safety · precaution · risk · peril · injury
transformer
Voltage-altering electrical device
- transmissionSending of information
- substationPower distribution point
- switchgearCircuit control equipment
breaker · capacitor · insulator · conductor · power-line · pylon · arrester · disconnect · relay · fuse
electrifying
Intensely thrilling or stimulating
powerful · surge · jolt · spark · amplified · dynamic · adrenaline · exciting · intense · supercharged
- safety signswarning sign, warning signs, danger sign, caution sign, warning labels
- electrical safetyelectric shock, circuit breaker, fuse, GFCI, ground wire
- power linespower line, power lines, transmission line, power pole, utility pole
- deadly hazardsheart attacks, cardiac arrest, sudden cardiac death, electrical hazards
- Voltageovervoltage, undervoltage, potential difference, electric potential, EMF
- electricityelectricity, battery, batteries, wire, wires
high, voltage, volt, volts, voltmeter, voltages, millivolt, photovoltaic, kilovolt