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Meanings of electric tension in English

Russian
напряжение
Portuguese
ddp
Spanish
tension
Catalan
tensió

Difference in the electric potential between two points in space.

напряжение
Usage of electric tension in English
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Kit yawned, apparently missing the electric tension that had infused our group.
Terminal
2
The heat and electric tension of the atmosphere would then become almost insupportable.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
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The sense of the Coming's imminence was like an electric tension in the air.
Brave New World
4
There was an electric tension in the very air.
A Yankee in the Trenches
5
The electric tension of the dynamos measures 600 volts.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
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The air was surcharged with the electric tension that heralds the most critical moments of revolution.
From October to Brest-Litovsk
7
So many egos and conflicting ambitions sealed into a workspace creates a type of electric tension.
The Guardian
8
The electric tension diminishes toward the edges and angles, and frequently positive polarity is produced there.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
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Perhaps it was by a sort of wireless electric tension that seemed to pervade the air.
Guy Garrick
10
The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, a stranger, brought light.
Les Misérables
11
One could feel the electric tension in the air, the battle of two powers for good or evil.
The War Terror
12
What then are the causes of this rupture of the equilibrium in the electric tension of the air?
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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He turned on the currents from the piles no longer neutralized by the electric tension of the surrounding atmosphere.
Robur the Conqueror
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Now he felt strung to a curious electric tension, with pulse and head throbbing powerfully like a racing engine.
Diane of the Green Van
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I sympathized for a moment with his madness and felt myself at once in the electric tension of Hell.
Ghosts
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From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension.
Les Misérables